Aviation shake-up: Airbus surges ahead of Boeing
Aviation shake-up: Airbus surges ahead of Boeing
Boeing dominated the commercial passenger aircraft market for a long time, but it has lost its title as the world's biggest planemaker to Airbus because it's been making headlines for all the wrong reasons.
NGL, the recent safety record of Boeing jets doesn't instill confidence. I am always relieved when I see my flight is on an Airbus.
That boeing is still allowed to exist at this point is a capitalistic travesty.
As someone said on another thread, “If it’s on a Boeing, I’m not going”
Or the odd Embraer - I know fuck all about them but at least it's not boeing
They almost became Boeing. Boeing basically asked congress to tariff the Bombardier C series so hard that nobody would import it. Congress responded by introducing a tariff even higher than what Boeing asked for. Airbus had a manufacturing plant in the US and made a deal with Bombardier to build the C series there to avoid the tariff. That's how the A220 came into existence. Initially it was selling so well that Boeing looked into buying Embraer to have competition in the regional jet market.
They are Brazilian actually.
They did before they took under McDonald Douglas. Ever since McD-D bought Boeing with Boeing's money it's been downhill.
Gee, I wonder why, when Boeing is crashing and burning, literally and figuratively.
A duopoly isn't good. I do hope there will be other manufacturers that bring more competition. Brazil and China are the most likely contenders.
While I agree with the Duopolies are bad statement. I don't see how Brazil or China would be able to break this in the near to medium future.
Brazil/Embraer are quite happy in the regional/ business jet niche. Their CEO recently said that they have no plans to break into new markets. And even if they would start developing a new narrow body aircraft, they would need at least a decade before they could deliver it.
China/Comac theoretically have a narrow body aircraft in production, but they seem to have lost the ambition to get this aircraft certified outside of China. Looks like they are unable to meet international safety standards with the C919. For the C929 or the C939 to be competitive , they would need to fly international and thus fulfill even higher standards than the ones already missed by the C919.
Boeing should start building their planes out of rubber and change their name to Boing.
Yeah but the article is kinda general, it just rides the recent crash wave to bash Boink boink. We don’t know why the 787 crashed yet, we should wait at least for the prelim report, see if it’s manufacturing issue or maintenance issue. I do see Boeing struggling, hope Ortberg can pull shit around before next ceo reverts it back.