Hacker News Reader

Comment by Medicalidiot | Hacker News Reader

I'm really wondering how much this will impact Boeing in the future and what their plans are for the 737 Max replacement.

View on HN

Depends a lot on how long it takes to get the planes recertified. At this point, they have taken some serious reputational damage, but every day they’re falling further behind schedule. If it takes too long, airlines might start cancelling their orders and buying Airbus instead.

And of course, if they fail to get the MAX flying again, it’ll be ruinously expensive. Massive write-offs, lost revenue, endless lawsuits. Probably not enough to end them outright, but it’ll be some tough times.

It probably impacted already. The Boeing NMA is basically nowhere to be seen, the 777X deadlines are slowly being broken, and that should be the future of Boeing. For now, Boeing is dealing with the past, basically, corpses falling out of the closet. Not to mention the 787 engine issues.

It increasingly seems like NMA won’t happen before a 737 replacement. 777X is going to be under a lot of scrutiny post-MAX and I would not be shocked if regulators find issues that Boeing overlooked before the plane is certified. At least the 787 engine issues are Rolls Royce and not Boeing, and RR isn’t the sole supplier of 787 engines.

True. Basically Airbus will have time to roll out their own purebred NMA competitor by then, although they have the A321.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com