We should nationalize Boeing.
It's in our strategic interest to be able to manufacture planes, Boeing provides lots of decent wage jobs, it has wildly overpaid executives, and it had shown that when given the choice it will choose profit over safety. Nationalization removes the profit motive, ends the bizarre tax subsidies that get pushed around.
Many of the trade offs that Boeing has made - outsourcing, devaluing internal expertise, focusing on shareholder returns over risky long-term bets, and aggressively fighting unions - mirror US culture more generally. There’s little evidence that nationalising Boeing would change this - as an example related to this news story, the DoD is outsourcing more and more of its training and aggressor flying to private corporations.
It is worth pointing out that many of the points about Boeing being a public/private enterprise also apply to Airbus.
Its not accidental that we have two global giants in aviation. Deliberate policy on both sides of the Atlantic.
That is the Washington solution for Huawei, TikTok, and Tecent after all.
What people use and want is the most effective signal. If regulation by government worked why hasn’t FAA succeeded? Largely many would argue they have statistically.
I prefer something closer to an emergent regulatory body that convenes on conferences and protocols.
Nationalism would be a nightmare. There’s so much to unpack there on mechanics and rights.
No way.
How long for? Where will contractors learn their trade in the future?
With travel restrictions, people afraid of catching covid, economy crashing, and plenty of good competitor planes with better reputation, why would airlines need (or want) to buy these planes?
Now seems like the ideal time to invest in these planes. Most people won’t care what metal they ride if it’s cheaper.
Fixed that for you
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-boeing-brazil-insight-idU...
Doesn't make this a great move, I still question it, but the original article didn't include any response from Boeing, and they are claiming something quite different.
[1] https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/air-transport/2020-0...
Not all ads use smart history / tracking.
Especially "amazing": even if every one of these pilots earns a million dollars a year and the "contractors" half of that, they'd still only save about 3.5 million dollars a year. Just... what the fuck? On the scale of Boeing, that's a drop in the bucket.
Because that's how the incentives align. The goal is to cut costs, the cost of outsourced training pilots + the margin of the outsourced contractor will need to be lower than the cost of in-house training pilots.
Also because that's how pretty much all of outsourcing goes, it doesn't take a seer to realise that what's happened essentially every time is going to happen again. Even less so considering Boeing's recent history of cutting costs at the expense of safety and reliability.
Whether or not this new outsourcing will go the same way is unknown. But based upon their demonstrated results from the last decade... it's not hopeful.
FAA Administrator Steve Dixon & Deputy Administrator Daniel Elswell will personally crew a 737 MAX next week:
The EASA is aiming for November recert. FAA was last aiming for a no earlier than October for a final published AD to bring it back.
I would discount anything Boeing says or does at this point. Their financial outlook is tied to the airlines but worse. The upside is the assumption of federal bailouts for Boeing are morning likely than those for airlines. Whether or not that outlook retains Boeing's current equity holders is another issue.
For people who actually do fly, there is not really a good reason to avoid it after it is cleared by several national regulators (several in case you don't trust the FAA) to fly again. When that thing gets back in the air the systems that were involved in the two crashes are going to be among the most scrutinized and independently reviewed systems on any plane designed in the last 20 years.
You may still die on one, but it will be due to something other than anything related to MCAS.
Disclaimer: Have been there for a holiday trip. Nice place if you disregard the moral aspect of the British Crown "owning" the place.
Are they just extremely valued? Clearly not to boeing execs, I guess.
>Isle of Mann
* Man
But that doesn't work when you're in aerospace and have no regard for engineering tradition or skill.
You can see that in the implosion of GE, and now Boeing.
The US government needs to come up with a requirement that private contractors mandate high-quality training and oversight embedded into their internal processes.
Ironically, flight training materials and evaluation is very high-quality in the US, but it's a single manufacturer, Boeing, that's struggling to meet quality standards across all of their airliner models.
