Anyone got some numbers that may give some idea on just how ahead the 223 is in terms of lower operating costs vs 31N or 7M7? Must be some pretty good numbers that despite the lower range and being a completely new fleet, it's the best seller in its category. Some article (simpleflying for this ins...
Jump to postDuring the MAX fiasco Boeing was "mandated" by the FAA to "hold their piece in the public domain", so the proper question is why does the FAA believe that the public should know nothing about where they are with the 777-X program, is it to rebuild confidence in the capabilities ...
Jump to postFrom all the teams he can pick, AM is the best bet for wins. RB was never realistic in my eyes, they will prefer Perez, Tsunoda or Liam in that order right now. There is already enough drama going on, they don't need to shake the order of things more then needed...
Jump to postAirbus CEO says “not unlikely” it will take some spirit plants: https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/airbus-ceo-says-not-unlikely-it-will-take-some-spirit-aero-plants-2024-04-11/ Confirms Airbus doesn’t want the Belfast and North Carolina plants going to Boeing, and they’d take them i...
Jump to postTrue, when a team is performing like RB, TV entertainment value is almost as low as watching paint dry…
Jump to postI guess this is how it goes. Predictable outcome. Top 9 will be two RB, two Ferrari, two Merc, two Mclaren, one AM, only thing up for grabs is the details of the order. 10th up for grabs because the rich guy's kid can't get much out of the other AM. The only time things get shaken up a bit is if Ma...
Jump to postAirbus needs those parts, so they can't play hardball too much. Spirit is losing money on a number of Airbus supplier contracts, per reports, so Boeing likely won't be playing hardball, either. I'd say Airbus needs the parts but not the factories, or as a minimum, Airbus is in no rush of taking ove...
Jump to postAnyone got some numbers that may give some idea on just how ahead the 223 is in terms of lower operating costs vs 31N or 7M7? Must be some pretty good numbers that despite the lower range and being a completely new fleet, it's the best seller in its category. airBaltic onboard magazine lists fuel c...
Jump to postIn this Reuters article, a possible 200-plane deal with Airbus was mentioned. I don't recall this being reported elsewhere?https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/how-boeings-leadership-was-fired-by-its-own-customers-2024-03-27/ Kirby's visit to France was fairly well-publicised, but I t...
Jump to postGiven that UA among other airlines managed to force a leadership change at Boeing, I would like to think that there is a gentleman's agreement that there won't be a substantial Airbus order as part of the "deal" to change the leadership. Why? The leadership change does not suddenly change...
Jump to postInitially the priority was 737-7 and 737-10 and after they were certified they would focus on 777x. This was due to the lack of capacity at FAA. I haven’t heard anything about the change in priority or capacity at FAA. The latest news was that Emirates was expecting the planes in 2026. I would expec...
Jump to postKirby's visit to France was fairly well-publicised, but I think this is the first time I've seen an order for 200 mentioned. Given the constraints Airbus has with A321neo production, 200 seems very optimistic, for a firm order at least. Shocking. I expected a smaller order for three dozen A321s. I ...
Jump to postFeels like Airbus might be getting on the right side of the Production volume/cost curve. As the higher demand picks up for the aforementioned aircraft the model specific costs associated with tem will drop and as such it becomes more attractive as airbus can reasonably offer them at a lower price....
Jump to postThe 747, A380 and 777 are all going to be, at least, partially replaced by the A350-1000. Capacity wise 3 A350-1000's are needed for for 2 A380's. Lot's of orders coming up in this segment...
Jump to postI was going through the orders and deliveries sheet of 2023 and noticed that the A350 backlog is shifting. Previously the A350-900 was always 70-80% of the orders/backlog. As landing gear and wings are the same for the A350-1000 and Freigther I am counting them as 1 variant. As of 29 Februari ~37% (...
Jump to postTo be honest it was mentioned earlier by someone(Revelation?) in 2022 that their simulator and wind tunnel data does not correlate with the realities on the track. And somehow they seem to be facing the same issues. Which is quite bizar. At the least they should’ve climbed the mountain that they mak...
Jump to postMAX is wrong from a strategic perspective as it forced them in a corner where they needed 2 planes to compete against the A32xNeo family. Max on the lower end and NMA on the higher end. They took a "low risk" short cut, which would fail even without the botched execution... Because the ai...
Jump to postJerseyFlyer wrote:A cutting headline from aero.de
"Boeing is looking for a successor to "the best CEO Airbus has ever had"
https://www.aero.de/news-47149/Wer-folg ... lhoun.html
They got the 787 battery wrong ( https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/12/ntsb-blames-bad-battery-design-and-bad-management-in-boeing-787-fires/ ). The got the basic design of the MAX wrong (engine forward and center of gravity) + MCAS ...basically a rushed design and the whole proces...
Jump to postThat's a big bet, but if hydrogen does take off (which is far from sure) they will only have Airbus as competition as other parties are not planning hydrogen planes. There is also the question if they can pull of the execution of development and certification. $33 billion for development does sound ...
Jump to postNo - they had at least that much FCF in those years and with program accounting it gets very weird. One cannot pretend that all the 737,747,777 and 787 developments in those years didn't happen either. In 2018 Boeing had $12,6B FCF. They spend $9,0B on stock buybacks and $3,9B on dividend. So, they...
Jump to postAccording to the source in the article Boeing apparently used deposits for future deliveries for stock buyback: https://prospect.org/environment/make-passengers-safer-boeing-just-made-shareholders-richer./ $6.8 billion in 2015, $7.0 billion in 2016, $9.2 billion in 2017, and $9.0 billion in 2018. S...
Jump to postAccording to the source in the article Boeing apparently used deposits for future deliveries for stock buyback: https://prospect.org/environment/make-passengers-safer-boeing-just-made-shareholders-richer./ $6.8 billion in 2015, $7.0 billion in 2016, $9.2 billion in 2017, and $9.0 billion in 2018. So...
Jump to postIndeed. My worry though is that the wall street types who inevitably pick the board of directors still want it to be a company focused on financial engineering - just without the current issues. IMO anyone on the board who doesn't see the current issues as a direct consequence of a change in manage...
Jump to postAlonso was wrong and got a drive through penalty for dangerous driving…
Jump to postMaybe already linked. But came across the following report: Boeing’s own internal assessments put the development, testing and validation of the anti-ice fix at nine to 18 months.
https://archive.ph/2o3Q0
Somehow the planning doubled in 1 month...
"at the end of 2024" isn't exactly "gone" though You're having a heart attack... but we'll treat you at the end of the year - they really need to address this now unless there is more bad news on the horizon and they want a clean sheet from 2025 onwards. So Stephanie Pope takes ...
Jump to postWas nice to see another winner, but as a race it wasn’t all that exciting. There were almost no fights and the most exciting was the DNF’s and the results that were caused by them…
Jump to postThe closest you can get now is FrenchBee. Their A350 fleet configuration: A350-900: 35W, 376Y= 411 A350-1000: 44W, 440Y= 480 https://us.frenchbee.com/sites/default/files/landing_page_flotte/plan_cabine.pdf This is as tight as you can get. Taper costs 1 seat per row in the 5 last rows. Theoretically...
Jump to postIf they were able to increase the limit to 480 for the A351 I'd say they can easily get the A359 certified for 480 since it uses the same exit config and similar internal layout. I think at 480 you are talking about 48 rows. I think the A350-900 can handle much more then that. Anyone has an idea wh...
Jump to postIf they were able to increase the limit to 480 for the A351 I'd say they can easily get the A359 certified for 480 since it uses the same exit config and similar internal layout. I think at 480 you are talking about 48 rows. I think the A350-900 can handle much more then that. Anyone has an idea wh...
Jump to postIf they were able to increase the limit to 480 for the A351 I'd say they can easily get the A359 certified for 480 since it uses the same exit config and similar internal layout. I think at 480 you are talking about 48 rows. I think the A350-900 can handle much more then that. Anyone has an idea wh...
Jump to postI hope not. But it would make sense. Most of their economy travellers are quite price sensitive...
Jump to postIf they were able to increase the limit to 480 for the A351 I'd say they can easily get the A359 certified for 480 since it uses the same exit config and similar internal layout. This would be a surprise, however if the A350 wins, I expect its because the NPS frames can go 10AB.. The economics are ...
Jump to postAlea iacta est, Boeing has no choice but to stick with the MAX. A new plane would not bring anything and be obsolete in 10 years. Where it does have a choice is getting the house in order. Unfortunately we haven’t seen enough signs of that happening…
Jump to postThe synthetic AoA sensor retrofit to 8 and 9 is very vaguely hinted at in this press release: https://www.easa.europa.eu/en/newsroom-and-events/press-releases/easa-declares-boeing-737-max-safe-return-service-europe "Let me be quite clear that this journey does not end here,” he (EASA Executive...
Jump to postIf we don't see measureable progress on that in the next 6 months, then fire him. This, exactly this needs to start happening. Give leaders a chance to prove their worth but if they don’t, take decisive action. That will only happen if the FAA decides the whole board needs to be fired. As the ones ...
Jump to postthere were a few educative posts about what "technology readiness level" is. At least they were very educative for me, helped to understand quite a few things... It is very easy for us to look back at the decisions made and criticise, but we are not sitting here saying that Boeing should ...
Jump to postWith a little bit of extra delay we are looking at an EIS in 2027… No, itll be more mid 2028 onwards. 1 year for inlet fix is 4/2025. But you all have sources that substantiate that being another 20 to 38 months beyond that? I thought the pre door plug incident the planned EIS was end of 2024, add ...
Jump to post9 months to fix the inlet anti-ice system responsible for the MAX 7 certification delay was wishful thinking: Rewoking that system of course effects MAX 10 certification as wll. This released today: "Boeing told lawmakers its planned fix for an engine issue on all 737 Max jets will take up to ...
Jump to postThis is a follow up video from Coldfusion about Boeing and shows the uphill battle that Boeing seems to face. Every incident involving an Boeing aircraft is suddenly reported and a lot of the time wrongly linked to Boeings lacks quality standards causing these incidents. The public image is already ...
Jump to postOr they do have information and have already sacked them... Fred Reinforcing the culture of do something wrong we fire you? This leads to cover ups and fear. What needs to be in place is a culture where you can report that the instructions are vague, all the tools/materials are not available, that ...
Jump to postNew details emerge in case of Alaska Airlines plane where door plug blew out The NTSB said Boeing is blocking it from getting all the information it needs. https://abcnews.go.com/US/boeing-overwrote-surveillance-footage-door-plug-repair-ntsb/story?id=108084196 No, Boeing says the information the NT...
Jump to posthttps://theaircurrent.com/feed/dispatches/pilot-seat-movement-at-center-of-latam-787-9-dive-investigation/ Pilot initiated seat movement. Stop with the cycling theories. You guys don’t know what your talking about. The cycling is incorporated into a robust maintenance program. Many are so quick to ...
Jump to postsomeone needs to put this in perspective. There are several hundred thousand parts in any air craft, there are about 5000 process specifications, material specifications, policies and procedures that cover from engineering design, through manufacturing, assembly testing and data verification (QA) t...
Jump to postPersuasive arguments and big bag of money have been there in the past, in the end Newey preferred riskier and less rewarding options… Right, the past is always prologue, circumstances don't change, people's outlooks don't change... It is until it isn’t, that is true. But the teams will stand in lin...
Jump to postPersuasive arguments and big bag of money have been there in the past, in the end Newey preferred riskier and less rewarding options…
Jump to postHey it could have been worse, they passed 56 of the audits and the interviewed engineers scored 58%. Now there is a clear path forward for Boeing: Let the six engineers go, the FAA clearly interviewed only the worst of the pack and focus on the 56 things we did right, while the 33 failed audits wer...
Jump to postI would love the whole Verstappen, Newey, Lambiasi and Smitz going to Sauber to build up a winning team with Audi. Would be one of the greatest stories ever in F1. Don’t see it happening as Newey mentioned he doesn’t want to leave England… That would kill dead any fantasies of Newey ever moving to ...
Jump to postI would love the whole Verstappen, Newey, Lambiasi and Smitz going to Sauber to build up a winning team with Audi. Would be one of the greatest stories ever in F1. Don’t see it happening as Newey mentioned he doesn’t want to leave England…
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