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Short-term thinking seems to be a big factor in all these issues.

• wkat4242 3y ago
  On 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 ago
    A380 was an example of "spending now in hope of future return". It was a case of long-term thinking gone wrong.
    • kergonath 3y ago
      You 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 ago
        Sadly, 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 ago
          A lot of A380 development went into A350 and new techniques going in other planes. Including 787, actually.
  • dgemm 3y ago
    Depends what you consider "old", but the 757 is from the same era as the A320.