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While this is certainly true right now, the clients will eventually revolt and go elsewhere.
by chinathrow 2y ago
While this is certainly true right now, the clients will eventually revolt and go elsewhere.
- quickthrowman 2y agoWhere? The only other option is Airbus. I would never board a Comac aircraft.
- kergonath 2y agoAnd Airbus has quite a long backlog…
- throwup238 2y agoBoth of them have ridiculous backlogs. The A320 family has yet to deliver ~7,000 jets out of ~18,000 ordered, and the 737 Max family has only delivered 1,500 jets out of 6,270 orders. At this point if you're an airline that has to put in a new order, you're not going to see the new jets for close to a decade. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Airbus_A320_orders_and_deliveries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Airbus_A320_orders_and... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Boeing_737_MAX_orders_and_deliveries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Boeing_737_MAX_orders_...
- bobthepanda 2y agoIIRC this is the real reason why JetBlue is trying to buy Spirit. They have wildly incompatible business models, but they both operate the same single aircraft type.
- bobthepanda 2y agoUntil they actually get new planes, they still need to pay Boeing to maintain their existing ones
- ta1243 2y agoJust means they'll get bigger discounts. Nobody seriously en-mass is avoiding Boeing, despite the popularity of the "If it's Boeing I ain't going" rhyme (which itself is a sendup of the "If it ain't Boeing I ain't going" from the 707 days, back when Boeing was an engineering company)