The US plane manufacturer Boeing has begun flying 737 Max jets that were refused by Chinese airline customers back to the United States, as the trade war between the world’s two biggest economies escalates.
Funny enough, that’s not even necessary in the short term.
Delta is refusing to take the delivery of various Airbus modells planned over the year unless Airbus guarantees to “pay for” all tariffs these might incur. Which Airbus of course won’t.
While it looks more like a cheap way out for them, various aviation news sources have already reported that Chinese airlines have declared their interest in these aircraft - both because the Anti-American sentiment and the lack in confidence in Boeing in their audience.
And ramping up the production isn’t that easy - significant parts come from abroad and even with them, they would have to massively expand production - their production lines are fairly slow
Yea, an area where the unintended consequences are actually going to push China domestically built airlines to be competitive with Airbus and Boeing, even if they lack the range and efficiency.
I guess they’d be ramping up Comac C919 production.
Funny enough, that’s not even necessary in the short term.
Delta is refusing to take the delivery of various Airbus modells planned over the year unless Airbus guarantees to “pay for” all tariffs these might incur. Which Airbus of course won’t. While it looks more like a cheap way out for them, various aviation news sources have already reported that Chinese airlines have declared their interest in these aircraft - both because the Anti-American sentiment and the lack in confidence in Boeing in their audience.
And ramping up the production isn’t that easy - significant parts come from abroad and even with them, they would have to massively expand production - their production lines are fairly slow
Yea, an area where the unintended consequences are actually going to push China domestically built airlines to be competitive with Airbus and Boeing, even if they lack the range and efficiency.