Posted on 03/18/2024 8:39:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Boeing handed over 27 airplanes to its customers last month as it continues to struggle with quality control problems and production delays that have frustrated the CEOs of some of its biggest airline customers.
So far this year, Boeing has handed over 54 planes, while Airbus has widened its lead over its main rival, delivering 79 planes in the first two months of 2024.
Delayed Boeing planes have been difficult for airline leaders. Southwest Airlines , which flies only Boeing 737s, on Tuesday said that it would trim capacity plans this year because of fewer Boeing Max deliveries and that it will have to reevaluate its 2024 financial estimates. United Airlines earlier this year said it was taking the 737 Max 10, which hasn’t yet been certified, out of its fleet plans.
Boeing’s February deliveries included 17 Max jetliners and seven wide-body 787-9 Dreamliners. Deliveries are important to manufacturers because customers pay the bulk of the aircraft’s price when they receive the plane.
Boeing logged 15 gross orders for new planes in February, while Airbus sold just two. And customers aren’t abandoning Boeing because of its recent struggles. Last week American Airlines announced an order for 260 narrow-body airplanes split between Boeing, Airbus and Embraer.
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With China now coming on line with commercial aircraft, Boeing has to FORMALLY DECLARE that DEI is dead in all aspects of the company, or they’ll soon be out of the civil aircraft business, and possibly completely out of business. This will have to involve firing their DEI ‘overhead’, as it’s reached the point where it can no longer simply be ‘absorbed’.
At that point, it will be up to the Democrats as to whether to destroy Boeing for not ‘playing along’
Or how unions ruined a once fine company, which, at one time, was the 2nd largest factor in the US Balance of Trade.
Boeing is having SEVERE sourcing problems since Vlad reverse sanctioned then on titanium, and other metals. Rolls Royce engine even worse….same same with our defense companies.
What about Airbus? They are still getting materials from Russia, how?Bypassing Joe’s brainless sanctions, third parties, other countries, and even rumored they accepted Vlad’s terms, payment to be made in rubles or gold….Russia has HUGE resources the West needs and relied on.
Good job, brain dead Joe, your “ Sanctions” have back fired immensely.
Hate to say it,but I’ve flown on both 787 and Airbus twice last year........the Boeing product was garbage....Airbus was way way better
Boing has blamed Micky D for their woes but Micky D is not the problem. It was the leverage buyout created under the Clinton administration that caused Boing to get to big for their britches. It also created a one size fits all company with a near monopoly on civil and military aviation industry. When there is no longer any competition you can pretty much do whatever you like. This sparked a huge opportunity for Airbus to encroach on the US aviation marketplace. Boing has made their bed IMHO, let them wallow in it.
I work on machinery that thank God never leaves the ground. We use build modules (basically a visual display board that has every part required) for every semi-important assembly operation. Several different people are involved in populating the module, delivering the module to the assembler, retrieving the depleted module back for refill. The whole point is to account for every part. Make sure 100% of the needed parts are given to the assembler. Make sure all the parts are used.
There is insane negligence going on that permits an aerospace vehicle carrying millions of passengers to have such elementary problems. What appears to be absent is having rigor, rigor, rigor part of the culture.
The vehicles I work with won't kill you if they fail. Boeing on the other hand...
Chinese crap is hardly going to be a safety improvement over Boeing.
“Chinese crap...”
The last words of MILLIONS of US factory managers, union workers, and corporations.
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