Oh Alaska/Boeing

Some dudes from COMAC will be waiting at the bar outside the hotel conference room to talk with the airlines.

How ironic that it is Mao’s Red China that is providing the free market of competition.

I mean that only half-seriously, which is up from zero-seriously only a few years ago. How much further does Boeing have to go to make the next decade of 737 be fungible with a mostly-unproven, but lower-cost state-owned airframer for single-aisle jets?
 
KLB said:
I've never done that either. I couldn't afford it. Flying is expensive and even more expensive these days. Now I may have taken students to Stephensville for Hard 8 on a cross that's was a lesson. Outside of sitting in the back of discovery flights for my kid and cross-country flying on the University flight team...there wasn't any "fun" flights. I had to enjoy those lessons, flying boxes, or flying these clients. That's about as fun as it's going to get.
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Pelicans Landing is way more fun than Stephensville (even if the food isn't as good)
 
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Minuteman said:
Some dudes from COMAC will be waiting at the bar outside the hotel conference room to talk with the airlines.

How ironic that it is Mao’s Red China that is providing the free market of competition.

I mean that only half-seriously, which is up from zero-seriously only a few years ago. How much further does Boeing have to go to make the next decade of 737 be fungible with a mostly-unproven, but lower-cost state-owned airframer for single-aisle jets?
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Just spitballing, but if they opened a production line in Texas or Misssissippi? Would have to be manufactured in a Western country using local labor I would imagine. I’m honestly shocked Embraer hasn’t announced a new line of 150+ passenger, 4000 nm airliners. You KNOW they have a design sitting in a drawer ready to go and Boeing has never been weaker.
 
ZapBrannigan said:
Just spitballing, but if they opened a production line in Texas or Misssissippi? Would have to be manufactured in a Western country using local labor I would imagine. I’m honestly shocked Embraer hasn’t announced a new line of 150+ passenger, 4000 nm airliners. You KNOW they have a design sitting in a drawer ready to go and Boeing has never been weaker.
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do they though? That BA EMB JV that was cooking since 2017ish is a lot of time lost for engineering and design, Id imagine it wasnt in the works if boeing was still selling maxs during merger/JV negotiations
 
Skåning said:
It's been a while, so i'm just gonna say, the 737 is a massive POS
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Is it? I disagree. I've never laid hands on one but I have scooted around for many hours in one without issue. It was conceived probably about the same time as your parents. I think the 757 would be a better option in todays market but no one asked me. The 757-X would've fixed everything for Boeing. Instead of a 737 that's hardly tall enough to keep from scraping the engines you'd have a range of short to long range jets that not only seem to be aesthetically pleasing to pilots inside and out but also made the pax happy. The 757 was killed by the McD number crunchers, I hope they roll in their graves eternally. I'm going to be flying fairly soon and I don't care if it's a Boeing or Airbus, I trust people like all of you to ensure I get to my destination safely.
 
roundout said:
Gaping hole eh?

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The new thing is not "door". The new thing is seat displacement leading to altitude displacement. Boeing: the only company whose Brand name has become onomatopoetic.
 
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