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Boeing delivered 83 planes in Q3, down from 130 in Q1 2023.
Airbus, saw an uptick in Q1, having delivered 142 of their planes, marking an increase from their Q1 2023 figure of 127.
Boeing has been mired in a series of safety issues since the start of the year, following a mid-air panel blowout on an Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 jet in January.
This has led to a slowdown in production at Bowing which is now limited by the FAA to producing 38 of the 737 planes per month until it is clear that quality and safety procedures are being properly adhered to.
Prior to 2019, Boeing had been in the lead for deliveries out of the two companies, but this changed following the two deadly 737 MAX 8 crashes of 2018 and 2019, and the ensuing temporary production halt of the model.
While the same family, these were different planes than those involved in the more recent incidents and they were caused by different issues. As the following chart shows, both companies saw dips in deliveries in 2020 with the Covid pandemic.
Airbus and Boeing continue to have a long backlog of orders (8,598 at the end of 2023 for Airbus; 5,591 at the end of March for Boeing).
Can you spot the company run by an accountant who lives a long flight away from the main factory against the one run by an engineer, who lives close by and whose planes land with the same number of doors (plugs) as they took off with?
And even if the doors stay attached, there’s always a loose wheel or two 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k2iYUU_VDw
When I was much younger the expression was “If it ain’t Boeing, I ain’t going.” How times change.
don’t forget the automated nose dive
Single point failure. You couldn’t make it up.
All caused by a reverse takeover.
Quote: But in 1997, Boeing bought another aircraft manufacturer, McDonnell Douglas, in what turned out to be a kind of reverse acquisition—executives from McDonnell Douglas ended up dominating and remaking Boeing. They turned it from a company that was relentlessly focused on product to one more focused on profit.
See? They’ve taken the design principles of the DC10 cargo door & applied them in more modern aircraft.