Aviation shake-up: Airbus surges ahead of Boeing
Aviation shake-up: Airbus surges ahead of Boeing

Aviation shake-up: Airbus surges ahead of Boeing – DW – 06/16/2025

Aviation shake-up: Airbus surges ahead of Boeing
Aviation shake-up: Airbus surges ahead of Boeing – DW – 06/16/2025
NGL, the recent safety record of Boeing jets doesn't instill confidence. I am always relieved when I see my flight is on an Airbus.
Several years already... and eventually, it trickles down even into the hardest boneheads
Several years is 'recent' in aviation, compared to the high-profile early FBW crashes Airbus had and AF447.
As someone said on another thread, “If it’s on a Boeing, I’m not going”
That boeing is still allowed to exist at this point is a capitalistic travesty.
Or the odd Embraer - I know fuck all about them but at least it's not boeing
They almost became Boeing. Boeing basically asked congress to tariff the Bombardier C series so hard that nobody would import it. Congress responded by introducing a tariff even higher than what Boeing asked for. Airbus had a manufacturing plant in the US and made a deal with Bombardier to build the C series there to avoid the tariff. That's how the A220 came into existence. Initially it was selling so well that Boeing looked into buying Embraer to have competition in the regional jet market.
They are Brazilian actually.
They did before they took under McDonald Douglas. Ever since McD-D bought Boeing with Boeing's money it's been downhill.
Exactly - when McDonnell Douglas "reverse-merged" with Boeing in 97, the corporate culture shifted from engineering-first to finance-first, and we're seeing the consquences of that prioritization now with all these safety issues.