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It was the Chinese Authorities who moved first and the we-outsource-our-job-to-Boeing FAA last.
by ulfw 7y ago
It was the Chinese Authorities who moved first and the we-outsource-our-job-to-Boeing FAA last.
- dmix 7y agoChina has recently produced some competing planes and has more of an authoritarian hold on the industry. About 20% of the Max stock was across a few of Chinese airlines which wasn’t a huge number. The last one also happened in SEA and had some initial duelling finger pointing so it worked well as a PR gambit to be the first to block it. Especially in the middle of a trade war involving product quality issues and Boeing is the closest thing to a US state run aircraft manufacturer. It’s always been a beacon of American protectionism well before the recent administration. So basically there was a ton of political will potentially involved here.