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1. Improved video conferencing quality and availability
2. potential future green initiatives - like adding tax to air fuel or frequent flyer taxes.
Sure people will still want to travel, but might do less.
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I mean, it wasn’t a safety scandal, but the A380 was a huge disaster for the company. I’d be more comfortable getting on a notional A360 than a notional 797, but both companies have self-harmed recently.
It lost them money but it didn't hurt their brand. Those are great planes to fly in as a passenger, they're just not profitable in the end for Airbus. Boeing can't even keep its newest plane in the skies, and may have killed off the 737 line for good. Think another revision after the MAX is ever going to be approved?
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Seems like you could either target routes that don't fly 737s at all, just much bigger or much smaller planes. Or you could stick to carriers that don't own any 737 MAX 8's such as Amtrak and SNCF.
Delta Air Lines, Spirit, JetBlue, Allegiant... you’re not stuck to just rail.
What is keeping Boeing's share price so stable in the wake of such catastrophic news for the company this year?
What is keeping Boeing's share price so stable in the wake of such catastrophic news for the company this year?
I think partly it’s the nature of the business. Even if every airline wants to drop the 737 and order all A32xes from now on, they can’t; Airbus simply doesn’t have the pipeline. Boeing will sell either a patched up MAX or a less ambition re-engine (a MEDIUM?) Probably for less money, but it’ll sell; the airlines really have very little choice.
Weirdly enough, most of Air France & KLM fleet are comprised of Boeing planes
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Why would Airbus be different?
Airbus isn't focused on profit (cutting corners), it's focused on politics (i.e. providing jobs in different countries). Hopefully that would make (local) engineers more powerful...
Why would you say that?
> profit (cutting corners)
Is profit the same as cutting corners?
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It is not that. It is that regardless if the plane is "fixed" or not, many frequent travelers will refuse to fly on a 737 MAX from now on. Last year I took 73 flights. At least three of those were on a MAX. I profusely refuse to get on one of those, regardless if they are fixed or not.
I have been thinking about how to implement that after the MAX starts flying again. Flight search interfaces don’t seem to filter on equipment. And of course, equipment gets changed at times, so you may book one aircraft and have a different one swapped in on the ramp. I wonder if after you have checked in, and the airline swaps in a MAX, if you can get credit for your ticket if you refuse to board a MAX? I would gue…
I suspect this is going to change as booking web sites can use that feature as a selling point.
Here in Australia just recently I booked a flight for mid December and was very surprised to see the type of aircraft listed on the bookings page.
Now that I have seen this information, I myself will be expecting to see this information and will happily change booking sites if required.
America is going to pay for the cronyism that merged every airplane manufacturer into one and eliminated internal competition. If you don't have internal competition, you'll collapse in the face of external competition. There is no way to get away from Boeing without getting away from the American aerospace industry entirely, a problem that didn't exist back when McDonnell Douglas was around.
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I'm sure Boeing would have loved to have those orders, but 50 planes is not catastrophic. In terms of the aircraft group, Boeing has steadily growing 787 orders and deliveries, with about 500 orders yet to deliver. In terms of their space program, they are close to testing their manned capsule and just got a light touch program review, while SpaceX got put through the ringer. And there are other aspects to Boeing tha…
> In terms of their space program, they are close to testing their manned capsule and just got a light touch program review, while SpaceX got put through the ringer. I'm sure this will end well for them...