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Most likely neither. Anti-trust is a matter of political opportunism. Because Boeing sells to multi-national corporations the government has little political
by rukittenme 8y ago
Most likely neither. Anti-trust is a matter of political opportunism. Because Boeing sells to multi-national corporations the government has little political incentive to target them. After all, those corporations are wealthy enough and sophisticated enough to take care of themselves (or so the thinking might go).
- shmerl 8y agoHow exactly can those corporations prevent monopolization of airplane manufacturers (which will likely result in higher prices and lower quality for them)? Anti-trust laws are there to prevent exactly such kind of outcomes, yet they seem to be mostly broken.
- rukittenme 8y agoI have limited knowledge of the industry but I know of at least four commercial airplane sellers: Bombardier, Embraer, Airbus, and Boeing. Between (at least) those four (and buying used planes), airlines have drastically cut the cost of domestic flights. The state of the airplane market seems to be "okay". I do know that the US government did side with Bombardier (CA) from a Boeing (US) lawsuit: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/26/boeing-loses-trade-case-over-bombardier-passenger-jets.html https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/26/boeing-loses-trade-case-over... So it seems anti-trust is at least a "threat-in-being".
- captain_perl 8y agoAirbus controls/owns Bombardier.