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Post by philidor on Mar 4, 2020 15:29:50 GMT 1
The introduction in service of the type went quite well. There no major hiccups, and the passengers, or should I say the clients, love it. Weren't there initially a few cases of contaminated cabins and sick passengers and crew ?
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Post by philidor on Mar 4, 2020 15:21:12 GMT 1
Vietnamese start-up Bamboo Airways is in talks with Boeing to order as many as 12 777X twinjets. If it happens, then I'll see it as madness ...
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Post by philidor on Feb 16, 2020 17:48:58 GMT 1
that must physically hurt the board members...ouch... Really? Did they all brake arms or legs?? Or did you perhaps mean financially... I rember a company belonging to a billionaire, with a subsidiary that lost about one hundred million. A high-ranking manager said the losses gave the owner stomach pain ...
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Post by philidor on Feb 16, 2020 17:43:35 GMT 1
Philidor I do believe you are toooooo optimistic concerning Boeing of 2010th or now. It is completely different company than the one which designed 707, 737 (original), 747, 757, 767, 777 in the past. In those days it was an innovative responsible engineering company. Today it is conservative company run by accountants, stock operators and lawyers and similar. The innovative drive and responsibility was driven away by those mentioned and only a "few" of it is left. Well, I never said I see them as an extremely innovative company. I just don't believe in black-and-white stories. All publically traded companies companies have managers with a business education, that report to investors. It doesn't make them evil, just hard to convince to invest money.
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Post by philidor on Feb 16, 2020 10:46:13 GMT 1
Agree, just like when then came with the MAX to chase after the NEO That's hindsight judgment. Actually, the MAX was commercially successful, they just botched it.
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Post by philidor on Feb 16, 2020 10:43:21 GMT 1
I actually think chasing after XLR is suicide as well. It'll be more or less clean sheet with ton of upfront RD cost and late EIS + new production line. That's why Boeing came up with the NMA in the first place - it would not be a true A321 XLR competitor, rather an aircraft reopening a market space previously served by the A300, A310, 767 and presently lacking a modern offering. They apparently couldn't close the business case.
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Post by philidor on Feb 16, 2020 10:22:44 GMT 1
Boeing does not want to follow the rules, as always they want an exemption. That is their proposal. And that proposal is actually leave it as it is. That's just your usual bias - you assume that Boeing is evil. Yet, there may be other ways to prevent a short circuit than rerouting the cables. Life isn't black and white ...
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Post by philidor on Feb 15, 2020 13:29:45 GMT 1
I do think so....many flights to BJS, CAN, HKG or PVG have been cancelled or downgraded to B77W. But low demand seems to be a reason as well, flights to SYD, BOS or KUL for example, also changed from A380 to B77W. Well, low demand is indeed a psychological consequence of the outbreak. Storing aircraft is consistent.
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Post by philidor on Feb 15, 2020 13:24:02 GMT 1
Now these back and forth are getting sadly hilarious. Are we speaking about people's lives, really? - This is dangerous, please rectify it. - No it isn't, let's leave it as is. Wondering still who is in power then. Of course, these back and forth will take years to overcome. We know that Boeing has made a proposal, which the regumators had been expecting and are eveluating. The assertion that Boeing is proposing to leave the design 'as is' is not correct. The FAA and other agencies will review the merits and possible shortcomings of Boeing's proposal. I don't see any confrontation there. Expect weeks, not years, before this is sorted out.
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Post by philidor on Feb 15, 2020 13:08:49 GMT 1
I find it interesting that Boeing since a few months already speaks about "MAX replacement" I haven't heard that from Boeing ! That would be suicide ! No matter what the media and analysts are saying, Boeing must say just the contrary as customers want the MAX now, not the promise of something else in eight years.
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