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>>Or no Boeing planes at all? That will never happen, the federal government would never allow it, and they have many avenues to ensure it 1. All Future bail
by phpisthebest 3y ago
>>Or no Boeing planes at all?
That will never happen, the federal government would never allow it, and they have many avenues to ensure it
1. All Future bailouts of Airlines could be contingent on them buying Boeing Aircraft
2. Direct Bail out of Boeing to make them the most inexpensive plane to buy
3. Regulation to prevent advertisement of aircraft type
4. Increase import tariffs or other protectionism to make Airbus and other manufacturers more expensive
Boeing is a national defense contractor and it too important to our national interests to be allowed to fail, if the 4 things I listed above do not happen something else will will prevent Boeing from Going under, or even losing market share.
- rsynnott 3y agoEven if Boeing lost its entire civilian market as a result of this sort of thing (which is not plausible) it'd survive as military contractor; it might have to be restructured, and the shareholders would probably be wiped out, but it would survive. Note that Lockheed still exists. And Boeing would likely not thank the US government for this sort of 'help', because it would be read as, essentially, a trade war, and provoke retaliation. Most of Boeing's market is outside the US. And also, I mean, this already exists. There are large single supplier airlines. JetBlue is an all-Airbus airline. Southwest and Ryanair are all-Boeing.
- dralley 3y agoBoeing's reputation in military circles seems to be, if anything, worse than it's civilian one.
- golergka 3y agoAirlines also exist outside of US.