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« Last post by turkeyfoot on February 16, 2024, 01:52:16 PM »
Hi
Airbus cashes in on the woes of Boeing with increased sales and profits.
2094 planes were ordered in 2023 up from 820 in 2022. It expects to deliver about 800 commercial planes this year, up from 65 in 2023.
I the meantime the US authorities have stopped Boeing increasing output of its Max10 while it probes manufacturing processes.
Its reported in light of Boeing's safety issues it may be tempting to vow never to get on on a 737 Max again. However experts have said that's hardly feasible, unless you want to take a chance on Russian or Chinese built planes. Even if Airbus could meet all of the demand, which it couldn't, the monopoly it would acquire would make flying prohibitively expensive.
On Monday, the beleaguered company suffered further embarrassment when a Dreamliner 787 operated by KLM had to return to Amsterdam, 3 hrs into a flight
when it was found 8 of the 9 toilets had stopped working.
Geoff