> This is pathetic. Boeing could end up losing out to the COMAC C919 Maybe that's a good thing. It will be a lesson to the US to not prop up a shitty monopolie

> This is pathetic. Boeing could end up losing out to the COMAC C919 Maybe that's a good thing. It will be a lesson to the US to not prop up a shitty monopolies for decades just because it's currently the only local option and losing dominance in the short term is oh-so-scary to techocrats who want to orchestrate everything. They should have encouraged and enabled the domestic development of competitors to Boeing - as a long term play - instead of repeatedly propping them up in the short term, just to keep the status quo going. It shows how little confidence, or interest, the US gov and US business community as a whole have in America's ability to compete on merit alone. With lots of juice by Boeing to manipulate an easily manipulated system that has become overly comfortable manufacturing these pseudo private businesses, without true accountability to either the market or gov. Although I don't blame any up and coming US manufacturer that looks at Boeing's cushy arrangement with the gov and the regulatory system bending over for them alone and hard passing attempting to compete.