- cross-posted to:
- worldnews@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- worldnews@lemmy.ml
You must log in or register to comment.
I think Boeing have fucked up a little bit
I wonder if the investors are happy yet
The investors that matter, probably. I have little doubt it will be the “little guy” who has a 401k with Boeing investments that takes the hit. The C-suite executives will have golden parachutes, and anyone powerful/rich enough will either insider trade it away or get bailed out.
a huge backlog of more than 5,600 orders
Apparently some people with money think there is going to be a big expansion in air travel.
The biggest limiting factor in airplanes is the production speed. Building airliners is slow which is why there are very long waiting lists. Nothing’s wrong that’s just planes. New planes are cheaper to operate so its a good idea to order new planes even if you’re not planning a significant expansion.
This is also why airlines will be slow to react to boeing’s safety record in orders. Switching orders means losing your place and going to the back of airbus’s waiting list.
Kinda yes, kinda no. There have certainly been times, particularly after 9/11 and various crises, when demand dropped significantly.
There’s also airliners that just haven’t sold well. A340NG, A380, 747-8, 767-400, the MD-11, until recently the Cseries/A220. The A330neo has also not sold particularly well and you could probably get a slot within a year easily.
True, but this article is specifically about the 737. Apart from the a220, none of the aircraft you listed are both in production and part of the 737’s market segment.
The a320 neo family has about 7000 orders awaiting delivery. It is not feasible to switch for most airlines for the reasons I previously mentioned.
Maybe let the engineers take it over again
They’re likely the last group the C-suite listens to so it’s probably a good idea. Shame it won’t happen.
You think it had anything to do with those planes breaking apart in the sky?
No, they just didn’t kill enough whistleblowers…
No, its millennials killing the aircraft industry.
we need to stop eating avocados and start buying more planes.
Well, you might have a point. I’m a millenial and I didn’t buy a single Boeing last month. Damn you, cancel culture!
Personally I only buy artisan aircraft.
It’s so important to shop local. I buy my aircraft from companies down the road from me that share my ethical values.
I wish I could afford a Boeing, but I go to Starbucks 35,000 times a day.
If you had cut out the avocado toast, you could have afforded your own wide-body jet liner before your 30s.
One Boeing 737 MAX = 6.5 million avocado toasts. You’d have to go without avocado toast for … uh … two weeks?
Well, it’s only 6.4 million Avocado toasts if you save some money on bolts…
That’s how we know you’re not a millennial. A real millennial knows that’s only one week’s worth of 'cado toast.
Damn kids. No one wants to fly anymore.
You say that in jest but I am a former flight instructor that isn’t particularly interested in going flying ever again, not since I dropped out of mechanic school anyway.
Grow up
Pretty sure they’re joking.
Thanks for that. Sometimes I wish /s was more popular here, for tone-deaf people like me.
It’s not needed. Need to think about the sentence.
How could millennials really be affecting aircraft sales? Obviously they couldn’t, therefore the comment makes no sense if considered literally. However often millennials are blamed for everything else, so perhaps it’s an amusing comment related to that phenomenon.
I know engineers at my work that would say equally dumb things like that unironically and mean it lol
I also don’t get people’s aversion to /s, do they also only speak in monotone?
Yes boomer, they speak in monotone.
But if you think about it, millennials could be pushing a dialogue in popular media that Boeing is part of the big industrial war machine, and deserves to die. I’ve heard lesser fabricated arguments on the Internet.
In any event, thanks for the heads up.
Market correction at work. Good.
So now the government’s going to bail them out yes?
again?
Were you not around in 2008?
Good.
Decades long FAFO.
The one where the door fell off? Yeah that’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.
wow, you get
onetwoa handful of planes fall apart in air and suddenly you’re not “reliable” anymore. this is woke cancel culture at work!fucken wokeratti and their ruffles through notes aircraft construction standards.
Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest.
Good. It sure would be nice to see a company held accountable for enshittifying so thoroughly.
Capitalism working as it should for once, even on a megacorp.
It’s a feature not a bug. Everyone wants easily removable fuselage components.
Good fuck this company. I’m sure all the military contracts will keep their pockets lined unfortunately.
more to the point: fuck the McDonnell Douglas Corporation. Oh, fuck them both, sure, but Boeing died a long time ago. It’s just McDD wearing Boeing like a horrific skin suit.
2019: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/how-boeing-lost-its-bearings/602188/
2020: https://qz.com/1776080/how-the-mcdonnell-douglas-boeing-merger-led-to-the-737-max-crisis
2024: https://finshots.in/archive/did-a-1997-merger-ruin-boeing/
2024: https://www.newsweek.com/merger-that-brought-boeing-low-opinion-1867937
Mmm McDD
Oh, what a terrible day to have eyes
There’s a “vote for strike” sign posted on airport road by their Everett facility. I’m guessing there will be a strike? I didn’t see the firefighter strike anymore for a few days now. I haven’t heard if they succeeded in what they were looking for.
Thanks, democrats…
Imagine being so angry all the time like this guy.
Must be exhausting.
Yep, just us democrats that hate our planes falling apart in flight!
/s ???
Unfortunately, nope…
