Boeing had another weak month for aircraft sales in May, taking orders for just four new planes. The company said Tuesday that it got no new orders for its best-selling jet, the 737 Max.
Also Boeing is buying back it’s fuselage supplier that it originally spun of into it’s own business (because it wasn’t profitable for Boeing back then).
The problem now is that supplier also makes fuselages for Airbus. So Boeing is gonna be making them for Airbus…
You can only do so much marketing though. People don’t want to fly in these planes if it means a huge risk to their life. It’s simpler to just say no thanks. Businesses don’t want them if customers aren’t going to pay to fly on them. So marketing can only do so much. In the end your product needs to work. If it doesn’t, then again people don’t want to fly in them… And so on.
They’ll just sack some more engineers to cut costs, and hire more sales & marketing.
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Ah I see you’re an optimist.
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In-fuckin-deed. All the talk about “carbon capture” schemes makes my skin crawl.
Well it’s either that or delusional parasitosis that makes my skin crawl, but anyhow.
Of all the Dystopias, I think we’re closest to Elysium at the moment.
I see The Road primarily, but I could also give a nod to The Road Warrior…
Wake me up when we get to Thunderdome
Yeah, although without the cool space station and cyberpunk-ish tech. I doubt we’ll get that far.
True, though I hope we’ll see a few variations of Killdozer crop up before the end.
Also Boeing is buying back it’s fuselage supplier that it originally spun of into it’s own business (because it wasn’t profitable for Boeing back then).
The problem now is that supplier also makes fuselages for Airbus. So Boeing is gonna be making them for Airbus…
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Ehhh there’s… Embraer?
Bring back grumman!
Seriously. These cats put men on the moon with 1960s tech. They bought into the dream. Now it’s all stock buybacks and evil.
The LLV, specifically.
Bombardier?
They don’t do widebodies.
What complete gutter trash talk. Economies serve the master of mankind.
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1998 Hell in a cell reference, yeah? That’s the only thing that coherents up this comment
More sales people to handle all the sales they’re not getting?
An engineer makes engines and a sales persons makes sales, right?
Actually a sailor makes sales.
“Sack”
stuff them into a sack maybe
You can only do so much marketing though. People don’t want to fly in these planes if it means a huge risk to their life. It’s simpler to just say no thanks. Businesses don’t want them if customers aren’t going to pay to fly on them. So marketing can only do so much. In the end your product needs to work. If it doesn’t, then again people don’t want to fly in them… And so on.