Boeing should move the its HQ back to Washington state. They need to show the public that things are going to change and it starts with the executive team being next to the engineers. Microsoft had the same problem when Balmer was in charge, focus around sales and not engineering.
United Airlines CEO says the airline will consider alternatives to Boeing
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They do, but they are one of the biggest purchasers of the max.
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The article points out that they have 79 planes from Boeing that are grounded. That it's impacting their ability to fly and finances. They may have Airbus planes but their whole fleet isn't Airbus.
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#25"Shares of The Boeing Co. fell less than 1%."
They are too big to fail. So they will fail together with the entire state.
4 domestic aircraft manufacturers of the 1960s (Lockheed, Douglas, Convair, Boeing) is now one.
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> United already runs Airbus planes.
Is different from moving away from Boeing planes... United is one of the largest operators of Boeing planes in the world, they have plenty of room to shed Boeing and purchase Airbus.
United is the largest operator of 737 MAX 9s. They operate 80 MAX 8s, with another 50 ordered. They have ordered 150 MAX 10s (which have yet to be delivered nor begin operating).
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think this is a major shot across the bow of Boeing management. To me, the fact that there really aren't timely alternatives doesn't take away from the gravity of a major airline CEO saying this.
> I think this is a major shot across the bow of Boeing management. > To me, the fact that there really aren't timely alternatives doesn't take away from the gravity of a major airline CEO saying this. What's to worry about? United has no real alternatives. A shot across the bow implies that the next shot will be with intent to kill but united is stuck with boeing for at least a decade....
I don't mean that the next shot would kill Boeing orders, I mean it would kill (dethrone) Boeing management.
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#28> alternatives to Boeing So, Airbus?
Well, an American company isn't going to start buying Sukhoi planes ;)
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#29Actions have consequences. Boeing decided they wanted to focus on maximizing profits rather than allowing organic growth to follow on continued high quality engineering and services. In regulated industries, especially where safety is of utmost importance, this is exceptionally risky. They F'd around and found out, and imho the only solution is leadership and strategy changes to shrink their business and refocus on b…
They didn‘t maximize profits at all. Why do people operate on the principle „if it is bad it had to be because of maximizing profits“? This seems to be much more about corruption and misaligned incentives as well as bigcorp bullshit-job rot. There is really only one thing that can cure this and that is more fierce competition
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The article points out that they have 79 planes from Boeing that are grounded. That it's impacting their ability to fly and finances. They may have Airbus planes but their whole fleet isn't Airbus.
Ok, so what is the point of the article title?
> United Airlines CEO says the airline will consider alternatives to Boeing’s next airplane