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Yeah, I've read about that, and it's good news, but more investment does allow faster expansion because building bigger planes requires capital investment in fa
by magduf 7y ago
Yeah, I've read about that, and it's good news, but more investment does allow faster expansion because building bigger planes requires capital investment in facilities. But you're right, you can only expand so fast because you have to build up institutional knowledge, however I will point out that I wasn't proposing that they jump right to jumbo jets, only that they need to more quickly build jets competitive with the 737MAX (which is a mid-size jet). Eventually it'd be great if they also built jumbo jets, but what the market needs the most right now is a modern 737 replacement made by someone other than Boeing. Boeing isn't trustworthy any more, and they're still bound and determined to stick with a 50-year-old airframe design no matter what.
I'll also suggest that, with lots of investment funding, not only could they buy more equipment and land and build facilities, they could also poach valuable employees from other aircraft makers to build up that institutional knowledge more quickly. Surely there's some disgruntled Boeing engineers who value quality and safety over executive bonuses who might like to work for a while in Nagoya?