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The Boeing of today is merely a husk of its former glory. If the U.S. had another viable domestic airplane manufacturer I bet we’d see a lot more pressure on them. That can still happen. I hope it does.

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When Lockheed left the civil aircraft market after the TriStar it was largely because the three-way competition with Boeing and McD was unviable.

Given that, the subsequent merger of McD with Boeing should not have been approved.

The commercial aircraft part of McD was dead when the merger happened. The had a cash cow called the "MD-80", which was a derivative DC-9. That had stopped selling.

Boeing got more value out of the defense part of McD.

It’s over, you can’t just rebuild the old Boeing. It’s gone.

Good job bean counters.

…not because it’s impossible. Because there is zero incentive to do so. The money has been taken.

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