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> Strategically, airlines are in a worse position if Boeing goes under. It is an interesting situation for airlines. Boeing is kind of a leaky abstraction lay
by nickjj 7y ago
> Strategically, airlines are in a worse position if Boeing goes under.
It is an interesting situation for airlines.
Boeing is kind of a leaky abstraction layer on flying. End users deal with the airlines, not so much Boeing directly.
For example, if Amazon ships your package and it comes 4 days late because FedEx screwed up, you're going to likely think negatively of Amazon not FedEx. Because from your POV it's "Amazon said it will be here today but it's not".
Likewise if a major US airline's plane went down due to Boeing's fault it would probably ruin the entire airline. It gets even more weird when you think about airlines making questionable decisions to push Boeing into making poor decisions or knowingly operate when captains of those airlines are aware of the faults but the airline still flies them anyways and this is where it leaks.
- sfifs 7y agoAirlines know that which is why the PR has been particularly brutal on Boeing. Everyone has tried to shift blame to Boeing overtly or covertly even as Boeing tried to shift blame to pilots, regulators, airlines etc. In this particular case, Boeing's PR machinery got overwhelmed and in this day and age of high social value if authenticity, the bland corporate legalese speak adopted by its spokespeople hasn't helped.
- ken 7y ago> For example, if Amazon ships your package and it comes 4 days late because FedEx screwed up, you're going to likely think negatively of Amazon not FedEx. Because from your POV it's "Amazon said it will be here today but it's not". I don't think that's true. Everyone I know seems to have a favorite of {UPS,FedEx} and thinks the other one is garbage. And people pretty universally hate the USPS. Amazon is trying to get into the delivery business, but people still recognize that there's usually a third-party shipping company that actually puts the box at their door.