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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I’m kind of surprised they are flying them back. Should have been like “it’s sitting on the tarmac, keys in it. Come and get it, we aren’t paying.”

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If they are refusing to pay for them, leaving them there would be gifting them to those airlines. Boeing is owed money, not the other way around.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Sounds like the art of the deal to me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Crash and burn

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Grinning because the Americans are getting a taste of their own medicine after snaking Australia away from a French submarine deal with AUKUS.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They’re saving themselves a a lot of airplane crashes actually

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

It is a 737 MAX, so quite possibly

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I guess they'd be ramping up Comac C919 production.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Funny enough, that's not even necessary in the short term.

Delta is refusing to take the delivery of various Airbus modells planned over the year unless Airbus guarantees to "pay for" all tariffs these might incur. Which Airbus of course won't. While it looks more like a cheap way out for them, various aviation news sources have already reported that Chinese airlines have declared their interest in these aircraft - both because the Anti-American sentiment and the lack in confidence in Boeing in their audience.

And ramping up the production isn't that easy - significant parts come from abroad and even with them, they would have to massively expand production - their production lines are fairly slow

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Yea, an area where the unintended consequences are actually going to push China domestically built airlines to be competitive with Airbus and Boeing, even if they lack the range and efficiency.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

If they are flying them back, they should pay the 145% tariff. After all it is China paying it, right?

[–] [email protected] 88 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Damn, that's not fair. Boeing were doing their best to make their planes unbuyable with their absolute trash company culture resulting in tons of safety issues. They almost had it on their own and now the trade war madness is stealing their thunder.

It's like shooting a man that is about to jump off a cliff. Just let them cook. They got this.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And now Trump will take the credits in trashing Boeing. And he will be proud of it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Is this sarcasm? Is it irony? Why has this timeline derailed so massively that it’s impossible to tell??

[–] [email protected] 93 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Trump: I'll trade you a shitshow of stupidity and backstabbing friends while rivals watch me smear shit on my face and I blow my enemies. In exchange I burn my country to the ground for no reason.

China: Deal

Americans: Deal

Russians: Deal

Rest of the world: WTF!!! Ah, fuckit. Deal.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Australians: May we please still have our submarines dear Daddy Trump?