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Boeing’s largest plant in ‘panic mode’ amid safety crisis, say workers and union officials
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Has any airline cancelled their Boeing contracts yet?
Yes.
https://apnews.com/article/boeing-sales-cancellations-crisis-674375bc711c299cac19b6df09443d4a
The problem with cancelling is that Airbus is the only other large airline manufacturer and they're facing supply chain and labour issues, and have a massive backlog of orders already.
Mainly because of Boeing. When Boeing had their 737MAX issues, Airbus's books filled up with orders.
Sounds like they could hire more well paid unionized labor to help with the backlog and make bank.
This is now a national security concern. Nationalize Boeing
They do military stuff too.
Bold of you to suggest the government could do better
This is such a low bar, literally anyone could do better that wasn't personally given the elite jack welch business programming
Sadly airbus is more backed up and they plus Boeing are the only two viable producers in the world unless you want to buy questionable planes from China.
Let's start Lemmy airplane manufacturing company. With blackjack and hookers.
We're all cool with wings occasionally defederating from the plane, right?
Sir, this is not Boeing.
Regardless of your thoughts on Comac, they just don't produce anything that competes with anything bigger than an A320 / 737. The only company that does is Ilyushin, and they make roughly one per year
They are trying to ramp up production, but that's a very hard thing to do given the sheer amount of suppliers (over 1000) and the general labor shortage in aviation. They are actively sending their own engineers to suppliers to help out where possible, but there is only so much they can do.
Even with ramped up production the backlog (8500+ planes) will take almost a decade to clear (735 planes produced in 2023). So yea, I could imagine some airlines with a strong cash position will simply buy other airlines just to take over their planes and orders instead of putting in a new order.