Posted on 07/14/2019 6:29:18 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Boeing has bested Airbus as the world's largest aircraft maker for most of this decade. That's about to change in dramatic fashion.
Airbus' commanding lead is especially significant because the race between the two companies has historically been tight. Last year, for example, Boeing delivered 806 aircraft last year to Airbus' 800. 2015 was the only year this decade in which one of the two airplane manufacturers delivered 100 more planes than the other.
The gap between them is almost certainly going to get wider. Boeing has not been able to deliver any of its bestselling 737 Max planes since March, when those jets were grounded. That month, one of the jets crashed in Ethiopia and killed all 157 people on board. It was the second fatal crash of a 737 Max in less than six months. In total, 346 people died aboard the two planes. Boeing probably won't get approval to fly the 737 Max again until the end of 2019 at the earliest — much later than what was initially expected.
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Could be (and could have been) so much better under different leadership though...
Boeing needs to:
A. Get outta Chicago.
B. Get right with the flight envelope of the MAX 8.
Boeing is a very Democrat company to the point that open hostility of Trump is allowed and even encouraged.
Being the liberals they are means they are ruining their own company. The CEO is a 55 year old child who thinks for employees that things outside Boeing are far more important and he has said so.
Obama delivers speech to Boeing after they donate $10 million to library:
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3753346/posts
As another poster put it, the money would have been better spent elsewhere...on flight software, safety capabilities, and other things of that nature...
Boeing was a big supporter of Obama’s Iran deal. The dirty little secret is that these aircraft manufacturers make a lot of money selling jets to state-owned airlines in Third World dumps all over the globe.
Better FMEA analysis and flight testing too.
Meaning HIS presidential library of course.
Boeing just went through layoffs and was planning more when they paid Obama $10 million in January. Right now, Boeing is expecting a few billion more in cuts that will lead to even more layoffs. Rumor is that many contractors are being considered for layoff this week. A friend just hired on with Boeing and she’s already being told her position is no longer safe.
“he dirty little secret is that these aircraft manufacturers make a lot of money selling jets to state-owned airlines in Third World dumps all over the globe.”
Yes, they do. Vietnam is a major player in Boeing’s world right now.
Patty Murray said that people in Alabama aren't smart enough to build airplanes.
Boeing has no one to blame but itself.
Patty Murray is not smart enough to understand Osama Bin Laden was an evil man.
Isn’t Airbus state owned? At least 2 countries made it what it is. Now Boeing is doing a Bernie Sanders trying to get something like a 3rd house to play along.
Agree, Boeing used to know how to build airplanes,
What makes you say that? Were the CEO and board responsible for the ACM software? Yes, their response could have been better, but who do you know that would have done a better job? Not defending the CEO or board, just trying to get a realistic evaluation.
Uh, they still do. Part of the problem was that non-domestic pilots tend to depend on the automated features instead of taking total responsibility for airplane flight. Domestic pilots are the opposite. This is according to a commercial-airline pilot I heard interviewed after the crashes.
The two tragic crashes are outliers - a tragic situation where the pilots did not know how to handle a life-threatening anomaly.
Full disclosure - I worked at Boeing for 32 years.
This will eventually become a classic business school case of how a tremendously successful company can stumble when it takes its attention away from engineering and producing the best product in favor of relentless and sometimes incautious cost-cutting. Boeing management likely expects to hold on by assuring their largest shareholders of continuing profitability and dividends. We shall see if that is enough.
Do not like Airbus planes and I have flown many places globally. Interesting that people here seem to be rooting for a European company to best an American one, tells me a lot about their real loyalties
boeing messed up bad
and don’t let bean counters make your coding decisions or any decisions. They should only count beans.
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