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Where are the smaller airline creating startups trying to eat Boeing’s lunch? If there ever was a time to take down a giant, this is it
by cgb223 7y ago
Where are the smaller airline creating startups trying to eat Boeing’s lunch?
If there ever was a time to take down a giant, this is it
- dnh44 7y agoIt’ll probably be Airbus that eats a portion of Boeing’s lunch (but not all of it). And whatever Airbus can’t eat will just go back to Boeing. An MVP for a passenger airplane requires considerably more effort and experience than an app, or even a car. You can’t just ship then iterate quickly.
- jacquesm 7y agoHow on earth does 'airline creating startups' live in the same sentence as 'Boeing'? Boeing is an aircraft manufacturer, not an airline. Airline creating startups do not compete with Boeing, they compete with Lufthansa, Air-France-KLM, Delta and so on. And even if they did create airplanes, small start-ups do not usually directly compete with giants the size of Boeing on their home territory. Airline manufacture - even with shitty regulation - of a new model passenger plane is not something a 'smaller airplane creating startup' would successfully pull off. It will take a very large amount of money and a huge team to do this.
- raverbashing 7y agoFor anyone to try to compete with Boeing today, from zero, in that aircraft segment, they would need at least, as in bare minimum, $10Bi dollars. Minimum And that would be to get the plane out of the door. Boeing (and Airbus) has several other non-tangible advantages to their product such as: extensive maintenance and parts logistics (including used parts that can be acquired), well known product, etc There is one possible competitor in the future: COMAC If your Boeing or Airbus plane suffers a non-trivial failure that makes it unable to fly, both companies have a team that are able to go and fix it there.