Boeing had another weak month for aircraft sales in May, taking orders for just four new planes
  • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
    158·
    12 days ago

    Good. Maybe they’ll be the first corporation forced to eat crow for their corner cutting.

      • saltesc@lemmy.worldEnglish
        382·
        12 days ago

        I wouldn’t be so sure. Government bailouts tend to happen because they’re almost forces to. Where the economy can suffer greater loss without the bailout. Generally, in a scenario where a company or corporation has nestled itself into something the economy is dependent on. Of course what happens after that bailout is the bad part where it often seems nothing is done to alleviate the economy’s dependency, nor is the actions of the body receiving the bailout regulated, monitored, or needing to pay it back.

        I don’t know how much dire a state the US economy would be in with Boeing missing or significantly damaged, but can’t imagine it’s perceived to be as bad as the crooked banks.

        Edit: Oh, wait. The military is dependent on them. Yeah, there’d be a bailout lol

        • Ookami38@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          67·
          12 days ago

          Boeing has MASSIVE government contracts, and does a ton for both the military and NASA. They’re absolutely bailout material, as much as it hurts me to say.

          • ZapBeebz_@lemmy.worldEnglish
            22·
            12 days ago

            I’m waiting for a condition of the bailout to be separating Boeing Defense from Boeing Aerospace, so the aerospace side can fail

            • RubberDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
              6·
              11 days ago

              Well looking at their income per sector commercial is the largest. And they probably split r&d across these sectors. So losing civil aviation probably would mean they can be less competitive as defense contractors.

        • Ketchup@reddthat.com
          English
          1·
          11 days ago

          BA is one of 30 companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average used to measure the performance of the domestic market. It practically represents an entire sector but itself. The Fed will absolutely help BA

    • RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      34·
      12 days ago

      They’ll just start selling their planes at a discount to win back buyers, then cut more corners to make a profit at the discounted rate.

    • NatakuNox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      11 days ago

      Boeing should be nationalized. If a company is “to big to fail” they inevitably do because of bad leadership and greed. They need to be nationalized as part of the bail out package. But because our government is corrupt Boeing with get billions of tax dollars to save them.

  • Churbleyimyam@lemm.eeEnglish
    1541·
    11 days ago

    Is it because their planes keep falling apart or because they keep murdering people?

  • Snapz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1231·
    12 days ago

    You think it had anything to do with those planes breaking apart in the sky?

      • Tja@programming.devEnglish
        941·
        12 days ago

        Well, you might have a point. I’m a millenial and I didn’t buy a single Boeing last month. Damn you, cancel culture!

          • HollandJim@lemmy.worldEnglish
            122·
            12 days ago

            Thanks for that. Sometimes I wish /s was more popular here, for tone-deaf people like me.

            • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
              102·
              11 days ago

              It’s not needed. Need to think about the sentence.

              How could millennials really be affecting aircraft sales? Obviously they couldn’t, therefore the comment makes no sense if considered literally. However often millennials are blamed for everything else, so perhaps it’s an amusing comment related to that phenomenon.

              • WldFyre@lemm.eeEnglish
                5·
                11 days ago

                I know engineers at my work that would say equally dumb things like that unironically and mean it lol

                I also don’t get people’s aversion to /s, do they also only speak in monotone?

              • HollandJim@lemmy.worldEnglish
                51·
                11 days ago

                But if you think about it, millennials could be pushing a dialogue in popular media that Boeing is part of the big industrial war machine, and deserves to die. I’ve heard lesser fabricated arguments on the Internet.

                In any event, thanks for the heads up.

  • exanime@lemmy.todayEnglish
    1133·
    11 days ago

    When you run an engineering company as a business, you wind up with no business at all

    • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      61·
      11 days ago

      “Made in USA” is well on it’s way from being a symbol of quality to implying a lack of. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a big proponent of domestic manufacturing. But there are an outsized number of executives who don’t seem to get that when you make shitty products, you will alienate all your customers who will then no longer buy your shitty products. That kind of reputational damage is incredibly hard to recover from. Especially when you make airplanes that have a tendency to fall out of the sky which is sort of a deal breaker for people who want to buy an airplane. Hope it was worth jacking up their stock price for five minutes.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        281·
        11 days ago

        well on it’s way from being a symbol of quality

        US Cars have been an international joke since the 70s. And Boeing’s success is largely in contrast to McDonald Douglas, which crapped out back in the 90s and was forced into a merger to get bailed out. This isn’t an issue of “American Quality” so much as it is an issue of “Traditional manufacturing methodology” being whittled away over time by profit-obsessed shareholders and C-levels.

        Boeing was a little late to the party, but that’s got nothing to do with American symbology. Everyone from Intel to Burger King have been on this trajectory for decades.

        Hope it was worth jacking up their stock price for five minutes.

        It was for the CEOs who already cashed out and abandoned the company, yes.

      • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
        3·
        11 days ago

        I understand the label is practically not enforced with very nominal fines if you’re found in violation.

    • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.worldEnglish
      286·
      11 days ago

      There’s nothing inherent to running a business that implies cannibalizing one’s own brand reputation for short term profits. That sort of behaviour reeks of an inexperienced and perverse management culture. You can find countless examples of businesses where the brand’s reputation for quality, reliability, and safety are considered sacred and any employee who publicly damages that reputation is ostracized. Japanese companies pretty commonly have these cultures, for example.

      • Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        41·
        11 days ago

        They replaced their management, who were mostly engineers with MBA’s, to business majors with MBA’s who worship Jack Welch. The IQ in the room plummeted as the ghost of Welch demanded sacrifices for short term gains so they might one day get their golden parachute.

      • exanime@lemmy.todayEnglish
        15·
        11 days ago

        There’s nothing inherent to running a business that implies cannibalizing one’s own brand reputation for short term profits

        True but only for a snapshot in time. When the expectation of the environment is unlimited growth and profit above all else, the quick cash out in lieu of long term gains is inevitable sooner or later

        You can find countless examples of businesses where the brand’s reputation for quality, reliability, and safety are considered sacred and any employee who publicly damages that reputation is ostracized. Japanese companies pretty commonly have these cultures, for example.

        Oh outside of the USA yes, I can see that… In the USA, I think I would count such examples with 1 hand (talking about large companies and corporations, not Mom and Pop shops of course)

    • jas0n@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      11 days ago

      This. It’s exchanging long term success for short term wins. I doubt they are going to be the only victims of business over engineering. It’s going to be a slow burn for a lot of companies. Most companies that go this route will slowly crumble as their products enshitify, but the thing is, in most cases, no one will get hurt.

      This should have never happened in the aerospace industry.

    • Kekzkrieger@feddit.deEnglish
      9·
      11 days ago

      The company itself maybe, the people responsible for the downfall not so much.

      The C-levels probably got huge bonuses for saving tons of money, while having a super high paycheck anyways and when the boat finally goes down they will just hop into a C-level position at a different company where their main focus will be again to save tons of money.

      C-level positions truly are the most insane thing in this capitalist hellhole that we live in. They come and go (usually in a 2-5 year cycle) and their next job is secured no matter their performance.

  • Chainweasel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    88·
    11 days ago

    Too bad they’re a defense contractor and “too big to fail”.
    Every one of those lost orders will come out of the pockets of US taxpayers when Boeing is bailed out.

    • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      162·
      11 days ago

      When the Boeing plane crashes and explodes >:(

      When the Boeing rocket crashes and explodes >:D

      • MenacingPerson@lemm.eeEnglish
        81·
        11 days ago

        When the Boeing plane crashed and explodes >:(

        When the Boeing rocket crashes and explodes :(

    • wagesj45@kbin.run
      5·
      11 days ago

      The investors that matter, probably. I have little doubt it will be the “little guy” who has a 401k with Boeing investments that takes the hit. The C-suite executives will have golden parachutes, and anyone powerful/rich enough will either insider trade it away or get bailed out.

  • Xianshi@lemm.eeEnglish
    65·
    11 days ago

    Good fuck this company. I’m sure all the military contracts will keep their pockets lined unfortunately.

    • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
      81·
      11 days ago

      I think they tried that before it was cool. Something about the handling of the newer aircraft that was responsible for a few accidents.

  • GiddyGap@lemm.eeEnglish
    53·
    11 days ago

    Nobody wants planes that fall out of the sky and lose sections mid-flight? Why not?

  • pwalker@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    301·
    11 days ago

    What a headline. It literally fell 3%… That’s not much. Actually still higher than their April value. They dropped more than 50% in the beginning of the pandemic and have not recovered from that. Whereas Airbus easily pushed higher than pre pandemic level. So yeah not looking good since a long time.

  • Rimu@piefed.socialEnglish
    22·
    12 days ago

    a huge backlog of more than 5,600 orders

    Apparently some people with money think there is going to be a big expansion in air travel.

    • Hildegarde@lemmy.worldEnglish
      45·
      12 days ago

      The biggest limiting factor in airplanes is the production speed. Building airliners is slow which is why there are very long waiting lists. Nothing’s wrong that’s just planes. New planes are cheaper to operate so its a good idea to order new planes even if you’re not planning a significant expansion.

      This is also why airlines will be slow to react to boeing’s safety record in orders. Switching orders means losing your place and going to the back of airbus’s waiting list.

      • SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nzEnglish
        15·
        12 days ago

        Kinda yes, kinda no. There have certainly been times, particularly after 9/11 and various crises, when demand dropped significantly.

        There’s also airliners that just haven’t sold well. A340NG, A380, 747-8, 767-400, the MD-11, until recently the Cseries/A220. The A330neo has also not sold particularly well and you could probably get a slot within a year easily.

        • Hildegarde@lemmy.worldEnglish
          14·
          12 days ago

          True, but this article is specifically about the 737. Apart from the a220, none of the aircraft you listed are both in production and part of the 737’s market segment.

          The a320 neo family has about 7000 orders awaiting delivery. It is not feasible to switch for most airlines for the reasons I previously mentioned.