• Melt@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    They might start sending assassins to threaten their buyers soon

  • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    5 months ago

    I also haven’t bought one.

    This shows that there must be actual problems with their aircraft though because airlines are not going to care about public attitude, due to the company’s politics. But if they are genuinely unsafe vehicles or have the potential to be unsafe vehicles, then they’ll stay away.

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    5 months ago

    Yeah, yeah, but the executives that took the various decisions that made Boeing what it is now are even more millionaire than when they started at Boeing and will not see the inside of a jail cell, ever.

    So we can all rest easy knowing that those we are constantly told are the most important people who deserve to be paid so much because of being risk takers and wealth creators, will be just fine, as if a few “nobody” whistleblowers had to be taken out, well, that’s a price the trully important risk taking wealth creators were willing to pay.

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      5 months ago

      I was watching this Korean show, they made a whole huge deal about a corporation stealing 5 billion won from the public. I literally burst out laughing when I googled the conversion and it’s 3.5 mil USD, big corporations here steal that amount in a quarter second just by breathing yet in Korea it’s apparently an amount worthy of its own entire show. US is such a fucked oligarchy.

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        Assuming the show reflects corporate values and isn’t just propaganda like US police shows are intended to make the Korean public (and anyone watching from outside of Korea) think that that’s how that would be treated.

        From what I understand, South Korea’s economy is dominated by a small number of mega corps (like Samsung) that try to do pretty much everything.

  • generichate1546@lemmynsfw.com
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    5 months ago

    This is the greed that was awesome for the fuckers profiting of cutting the costs of engineering…now we reap the benefits of losing a worldwide prominence in aviation because some scum from McDonald Douglass wanted to get rich…at American expense.

  • cosmicrookie@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Even if they gave them away for free, no one would take them for commercial use. Not sure who would be surprised at this ‘news’

    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
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      5 months ago

      I mean, they totally would. Do you think the fine folks at American airlines have moral compasses that are orders of magnitude greater than boeing’s?

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          They have been. The problem is twofold; Airbuses are limited in the U.S., and airlines have increased the rates on those tickets because I guess a working airplane is now considered a premium.

  • ForgottenFlux@lemmy.worldOP
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    5 months ago

    Summary:

    • Boeing sales tumbled in May, with only 4 new plane orders and no orders for the 737 Max for the second straight month
    • This compares unfavorably to Airbus, which reported net orders for 15 planes in May
    • Boeing also saw Aerolineas Argentinas cancel an order for a single Max jet
    • Boeing’s stock fell 3% in afternoon trading
    • The poor sales results follow weak figures in April, when Boeing reported 7 sales with none for the Max
    • Boeing hopes the slow pace reflects a lull before the upcoming Farnborough Airshow, but the company is facing issues like the FAA capping 737 production and allegations of production shortcuts and falsified inspection records
    • Despite the recent slow sales, Boeing still has a huge backlog of over 5,600 orders
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      5 months ago

      Despite the recent slow sales, Boeing still has a huge backlog of over 5,600 orders

      I wonder what those orders are? They could be mainly orders for extra bolts.

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        5 months ago

        Not sure if this is serious. Boeing and Airbus are booked with orders for the next several years. They both could not get a single new order and would have work to do for the next half decade.

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          Not sure if this is serious.

          if you are really not sure whether this:

          They could be mainly orders for extra bolts.

          is serious, then i recommend to not attempt crossing a street without supervision 😜

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            5 months ago

            its a valid question.

            “Are they orders for whole planes, or for anything boeing might produce such as bolts?”

            Does that simplify it for you? Careful crossing the streets

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          5 months ago

          Several years is an understatement. At current rates of production it will take at least 14 years to fulfill all orders.

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        5 months ago

        Those are orders for the 737. Not parts, newly constructed aircraft. Airbus’s similary sized A320 has a backlog of 7197 according to wikipedia.

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        5 months ago

        Boeing is the industry in the military-industrial-complex. Commercial jetliners are an ancillary product for them.

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          No, their airlines are not an ancillary product. They are their main product. According to Boeing’s earnings reports, the commercial aircraft segment of the company made up 56% of total revenue in 2018, 42% in 2019, 27% in 2020, 30% in 2021, 38% in 2022, and 43% in 2023. The rest of their revenue is split between the Defense, Space and Security segment, and the Global Services segment.

          Prior to 2017, the vast majority of the earnings for the whole company came from the Commercial Airplanes segment. Since then, that segment has been operating at a loss. Since 2022, both Defense and Commercial Airplanes have been operating at a loss.

          If you’re curious you can look up Boeing’s 10-k form. Page 56 has the revenue breakdowns.

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    5 months ago

    I’m sure the millionaire dipshits who cut corners and killed people are super worried.

    laughs in golden parachute

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      5 months ago

      It’s not so much what the Boeing CEO called the issue so much as a technical term for when a non-conforming product gets sold at its planned inspection operation.