> Marginal gains is the name of the game for airliners. A 2% increase in fuel efficiency is something airlines drool over. It's not if the resultant airplane i

> Marginal gains is the name of the game for airliners. A 2% increase in fuel efficiency is something airlines drool over. It's not if the resultant airplane isn't safe to use. 2% improvement over nothing (because you can't even fly the damn thing) is nothing. Most of the success stories you're referring to are the old Boeing, from decades past. The 787 had lots of problems but they did eventually get it dialed in with fortunately no fatal crashes, just having lost many billions of dollars in overruns. But their most recent plane is an absolute disaster. They can't keep coasting on the successes of the past without making more successes in the future. These layoffs are prove of it. On their current trajectory, they are failing.