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Likewise the 757, which current Boeing management scrapped when market trends were against it, but is now the plane they want -- so instead they're trying to ch
by rst 3y ago
Likewise the 757, which current Boeing management scrapped when market trends were against it, but is now the plane they want -- so instead they're trying to cheap out with 737 retreads.
- HPsquared 3y agoShort-term thinking seems to be a big factor in all these issues.
- wkat4242 3y agoOn the other hand, Airbus went ahead with the A380 and gets a lot of bad press for it ("How could they not have seen this coming"). And the 757 is an old design too.
- HPsquared 3y agoA380 was an example of "spending now in hope of future return". It was a case of long-term thinking gone wrong.
- kergonath 3y agoYou cannot avoid mistakes every now and then. At least it had no particular safety issue and is quite a reliable aircraft, and they still made money with it. This is nothing like the issues Boeing is facing.
- oskarkk 3y agoSadly, in the end they lost money on it. They came to a point where producing the plane was profitable, but they never recouped the development cost: https://simpleflying.com/was-the-a380-programme-profitable/ https://simpleflying.com/was-the-a380-programme-profitable/
- p_l 3y agoA lot of A380 development went into A350 and new techniques going in other planes. Including 787, actually.
- dgemm 3y agoDepends what you consider "old", but the 757 is from the same era as the A320.
- closewith 3y agoObviously the 757 is in the same class as the neos, but they could never have competed with them. Either Boeing continued selling ever more efficient 737s or they risked losing the entire segment to Airbus.