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Good. It sure would be nice to see a company held accountable for enshittifying so thoroughly.
It’s a feature not a bug. Everyone wants easily removable fuselage components.
Capitalism working as it should for once, even on a megacorp.
Nobody wants planes that fall out of the sky and lose sections mid-flight? Why not?
The one where the door fell off? Yeah that’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.
Good. Maybe they’ll be the first corporation forced to eat crow for their corner cutting.
Don’t count on it, the government will bail them out if they drop further
I wouldn’t be so sure. Government bailouts tend to happen because they’re almost forces to. Where the economy can suffer greater loss without the bailout. Generally, in a scenario where a company or corporation has nestled itself into something the economy is dependent on. Of course what happens after that bailout is the bad part where it often seems nothing is done to alleviate the economy’s dependency, nor is the actions of the body receiving the bailout regulated, monitored, or needing to pay it back.
I don’t know how much dire a state the US economy would be in with Boeing missing or significantly damaged, but can’t imagine it’s perceived to be as bad as the crooked banks.
Edit: Oh, wait. The military is dependent on them. Yeah, there’d be a bailout lol
Boeing has MASSIVE government contracts, and does a ton for both the military and NASA. They’re absolutely bailout material, as much as it hurts me to say.
I’m waiting for a condition of the bailout to be separating Boeing Defense from Boeing Aerospace, so the aerospace side can fail
Well looking at their income per sector commercial is the largest. And they probably split r&d across these sectors. So losing civil aviation probably would mean they can be less competitive as defense contractors.
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BA is one of 30 companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average used to measure the performance of the domestic market. It practically represents an entire sector but itself. The Fed will absolutely help BA
You think Trump would do that?
How would he have any say over what the government does? He doesn’t even have control over his bodily functions.
I guess I’m just feeling pessimistic about the future tonight.
They’ll just start selling their planes at a discount to win back buyers, then cut more corners to make a profit at the discounted rate.
What’re they waiting for?
Stock prices to drop sufficiently.
I’d consider that to be “eating Crow”, considering that’s the one thing they’re supposed to be concerned about.
They’ll just use the opportunity to buy back stock.
Boeing should be nationalized. If a company is “to big to fail” they inevitably do because of bad leadership and greed. They need to be nationalized as part of the bail out package. But because our government is corrupt Boeing with get billions of tax dollars to save them.
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.
Thanks, democrats…
Imagine being so angry all the time like this guy.
Must be exhausting.
/s ???
Unfortunately, nope…
They’re not nearly cool enough to do something like this
Yep, just us democrats that hate our planes falling apart in flight!
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.
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.
Too bad they’re a defense contractor and “too big to fail”.
Every one of those lost orders will come out of the pockets of US taxpayers when Boeing is bailed out.When the Boeing plane crashes and explodes >:(
When the Boeing rocket crashes and explodes >:D
When the Boeing plane crashed and explodes >:(
When the Boeing rocket crashes and explodes :(
Good.
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.
They’re too big to fail, so the government will bail them out to some extent. Though at least one’s odds of being stuck on one of their deathtraps the next time they fly will steadily diminish with each year that airlines opt for someone else.
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.
Sounds like they’ve entered the, “find out,” stage.
The company itself maybe, the people responsible for the downfall not so much.
The C-levels probably got huge bonuses for saving tons of money, while having a super high paycheck anyways and when the boat finally goes down they will just hop into a C-level position at a different company where their main focus will be again to save tons of money.
C-level positions truly are the most insane thing in this capitalist hellhole that we live in. They come and go (usually in a 2-5 year cycle) and their next job is secured no matter their performance.
The people that set us on this path moved on long ago.
Makes you long for golden parachutes that don’t open when their 737 Max loses an engine or two
They’re still working for US Government and have military contracts. They’re fine.
