Boeingmd82 From United States of America, joined Jun 2001, 235 posts, RR: 1 Posted (11 years 9 months 4 days 1 hour ago) and read 632 times:
I have a question for all. I recently read tha Boeing will be cutting it's commerical aircraft division by up to 31,000 jobs. But in a side note, they say that the work on the Sonic Cruiser (SC-Swift) will continue.
There have been rumblings about Airlines with orders for the 380 cancelling them.
Do you think if enough Airlines drop the 380 and Airbus decides not to continue with A380 devlopment, would Boeing quit development on the SC?
I know that these two aircraft are for differnet markets, but do you really think that Boeing would be developing the SC if there was no A380 on the horizon?
Sonic From Lithuania, joined Jan 2000, 1670 posts, RR: 1 Reply 1, posted (11 years 9 months 3 days 23 hours ago) and read 599 times:
I don't think Airbus will cancel A380. They invested much into it. I think now it's perhaps cheaper to go on market and sell something like MD-11 did, not cancel project.
Spaceman From United States of America, joined Jul 2000, 534 posts, RR: 0 Reply 3, posted (11 years 9 months 3 days 22 hours ago) and read 581 times:
The A380 is already half way point into designing the plane. They are half way from production process to turned back now would be wasting alot of time and investments. If Airbus canceled the A380 developement now they would probably go bank rupt. They have to keep going forward and see if the future will call for the necissity for such huge bird.
As far as the SC, it seems to me it has only gotten into the beginning of the design process. Nothing has been finalized into the design process yet.
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