“This is a Boeing problem, not a public one,”
You’re an ignorant idiot if you think that.
Boeing employees provide all kinds of services that keep plane sin the air. Without them the airlines shutdown, as does cargo traffic, US mail, and all those things you claim are not affected.
‘Boeing employees provide all kinds of services that keep planes in the air.”
Once the aircraft leave the plants, they are now the property of the airlines. Everything past that point is the responsibility of the airlines whether commercial or passenger unless something is found wrong and they are brought in to discuss the problem(s) for correction like the problems with the 737 a few years ago. So they provide nothing but talk after the aircraft is delivered unless an unusual situation surfaces. By not providing additional aircraft to the consumers is a long term problem like I mentioned.
Airlines purchase in fleet sizes when they get enough hours on the current fleet. For the brand new 737 max there are secured orders for 100 aircraft from Southwest Airlines, 25 aircraft from United Airlines, and 23 aircraft from Alaska Airlines. All new bells and whistles for the plane and to be delivered starting early 2022. They plan to finish test flights in 2021 and have 10 completed by late June.
In the commercial side secured order for four 747 freighter aircraft from Atlas Air in 1021 but production of the aircraft will end mid 2022 so no more are being sold.
There are captured order for eight 777 freighters from DHL in 2020 that are still to be delivered with the construction of the new 777 with a pile of improvements.
Boeing’s revenue comes from 3 sources:
40% defense and space
35% commercial aircraft
25% global services (These include engineering, maintenance and modifications, upgrades and conversions, spare parts, pilot and maintenance training systems and services, all for the owners to work with)
So, except for mailing out the spare parts so the owners’ maintenance people can install them from Boeing specs, the sale is the end of the trail.
The process of developing a new aircraft like the 787 from the time the program began to the time of the first revenue flight was about 8 years and 9 months. The factory in Everett has the capacity to produce almost 9 aircraft a month of all the large aircraft they build. They are just in the business of making things for the aircraft and assembling them or sending out parts for the owners to assemble.
I own stock in Boeing and I live a couple of miles from the southern wing assembly plant south of Tacoma.
“You’re an ignorant idiot if you think that.”
You can call me what you want. But I’m giving you facts that you can find if you do a little research. Before you call people names and question their intelligence, do a little of that research. Then you can carry on a conversation using facts.
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