Posted on 06/20/2023 6:08:48 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi
Prior to CT they fly over my house in south central NH coming from Europe. Typically I see them going in a south westerly direction heading towards NYC, DC and elsewhere.
The question is that how long after receiving them will they all smell like curry?
“Something tells me that Airbus doesn’t do all of that affirmative action/DEI hiring. Boeing on the other hand...”
The bottom line with these requirements is that US companies are indirectly TAXED by having to carry non-productive people and have to work that into the prices of their products. In this case, that took us out of the running.
Way to go, Joe.....Way to go.
The 737 Max is not competitive with the A320 NEO series.
Boeing is focused on wideboy planes for the future, not single aisle aircraft.
Boeing has ceded the single-aisle market to Airbus.
“The 737 Max is not competitive with the A320 NEO series.”
Apparently so, but why? Why didn’t Boeing have the resources available to design a new plane that could compete with the NEO? How is Boeing spending their money compared to Airbus? For example, does Europe have a bunch of substandard universities graduating people with near-useless STEM degrees, as the US does, particularly in the South...people that large companies are then forced to hire, due to government requirements?
You beat up a horse enough, you eventually cannot ride it, or something like that.
Who would ever get on an airplane with a name sounding like Boing.
Boeing has a hole in its product range. Its airliners are either too small or too big for the regional single aisle market. The A-320 series fits that niche nicely.
CC
Multiple crashes and hundreds killed due to software errors will do that to a company.
Boeing made the mistake that the Max would preclude the need for newly certified pilots. This was key to retain Southwest Airlines as a customer (all B737 fleet).
But the Max is not as efficient and the way they implemented the MCAS system (which killed hundreds) without telling pilots, has put a pox on Boeing single aisle aircraft.
It was bad leadership, bad product, bad engineering.
Had Boeing gone down the 787 path of a carbon fiber fuselage and modular capacity, they would have filled a competitive need against Airbus.
It is almost like Airbus has given Boeing the widebody business and Boeing has given Airbus the single aisle business.
What a ridiculous comment.
Boeing was the greatest aircraft company. No one would make a comment like that except maybe when it was brand new. You can think what you want now, but we’re talking 70 years of phenomenal success.
Airbus is a socialist globalist “company” that has had good stuff, and failures. That A380 bloat bus being a great example of how stupid and short-sighted that socialist alliance can be.
Meanwhile, in other news...
“Air India Finalizes Order for Up to 290 Boeing Single-Aisle and Widebody Jets”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/air-india-finalizes-order-290-140100637.html?.tsrc=rss
That’s, “Mumbai”, to you, colonizer!
“bringing the total number of Airbus aircraft IndiGo has ordered to 1,330”
You would think any airline would diversify their fleet in case a plane has an accident that forces every similar plane to be grounded... like the 737max.
I had the very same thought.
Air New Guinea smelled like, well, I can’t describe it really. It was awful though. The front of the cabin was stained with beetle nut juice though and what passed for first or civilized class was in the back.
You have never heard that joke before?
If it’s Boeing, I ain’t going.
Thanks for the input. I personally find it hard to believe that the Boeing flight control systems could be any less capable than the Airbus system. Know a number of pilots who have flown both and the general consensus is that they prefer the Airbus as a work plane because it takes care of so much more stuff for them than the Boeing. Automation is a huge positive, especially in busy, complex airspace. The potential problem is that a lot of the current generation of pilots in the civilian training pipeline are becoming more dependent upon automation at the expense of basic airmanship skills.
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