[Axlrose]

This is a smart move by Boeing. They don't have to rush deliveries of the 787. They just have to wait their sweet time for the Scarebus white elephant to prove what a disaster it is.

One A380 crash and its over for Airbus.

[Slapshot68]

No worries, just tweaking it instead of rushing it out the door like the A380.

[wideawake]

They should have learned the lesson of overpromising and underdelivering that Airbus experienced.

[untrained skeptic]

Ouch! I hate seeing Boeing have to slip the schedule. Delivering such an ambitious new design on time after Airbus stumbled so badly with the A380 would have been a nice feather in their cap.

Boeing is still in a great position, but this will give the Airbus sales people a little ammunition when making excuses for their own problems.

As long as Boeing doesn't keep having problems with schedule slippage, they will still come out of this looking very good compared to Airbus, but they really need to get the problems worked out and stick with the revised schedule.

[rbg81]

This is SOP for Boeing. Keep making the schedule tighter and tigher—all the while insisting they will make it. Finally, when they slip, they slip big. And everyone is shocked!

[Fast Ed97]

THere is too little competition for commercial aircraft. Its a shame M/D was swallowed up. Any chance Lockheed starts some commercial designs?

[robomatik]

film at 11?