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Why do these airplane manufacturers all have such massive order backlogs? Is it that difficult to scale production?
by stingraycharles 8y ago
Why do these airplane manufacturers all have such massive order backlogs? Is it that difficult to scale production?
- inferiorhuman 8y agoYes. Take a look at the issues Boeing had with the 787 production or even just the distance which both Airbus and Boeing ship giant pieces of airplane.
- mikeash 8y agoAirbus currently builds about 660 A320s per year. At roughly $100 million apiece, that’s about $66 billion per year of product. How many other manufacturing companies produce that much stuff? And this sort of low volume, high value manufacturing is a bad fit for the sort of automation that allows, say, Toyota to build 10 million cars per year.