Originally Posted by
Knotcher
Is that just a hunch or did you have the numbers? It is a staggering amount to create a clean sheet airplane, and obviously at the time Boeing decided it didn't make sense.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/11/17/b...ost/index.html
“Boeing has detailed about $20 billion in direct costs from the grounding: $8.6 billion in compensation to customers for having their planes grounded, $5 billion for unusual costs of production, and $6.3 billion for increased costs of the 737 Max program.”
that doesn’t include the initial costs of R&D for the 737 MAX either.
It costs $5-10 billion to build and certify a clean sheet airliner. Bombardier did it for $6 billion on the C Series, which Boeing pushed into Airbus’s hands for free.
Boeing management is about as high-level incompetent as it gets.