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It's surprising airbus hasn't eaten more of Boeing's lunch. The A32x series planes fit the roles of the 737/757/767 seemingly, and likely don't require new cert
by bfrog 7y ago
It's surprising airbus hasn't eaten more of Boeing's lunch. The A32x series planes fit the roles of the 737/757/767 seemingly, and likely don't require new certifications to fly each in the series. I think boeing has not only lost customers from the 737 max but confidence from people actually flying boeing jets as a whole. I for one look at the plane I'm flying on when buying tickets, I pay more for planes that have good to great safety records. I can't be alone in that.
- jesusthatsgreat 7y agoYou're not alone but you're probably in the less than 1% of people who care about anything other than price when it comes to flying. Low cost airlines dominate because people people want to pay as little as possible for flights.
- Leherenn 7y agoThey're production constrained. The backlog for A32x is like 10 year long. At some point, better a slightly inferior plane now (well, in the next few years) than in 20 years. I assume they don't increase production (or at least not enough to massively reduce this backlog) because they don't expect this to keep up, and it's a massive investment.
- nutjob2 7y agoAirbus say that they would like to increase production of the A320 series but are constrained by their suppliers's ability to expand their production.