How Boeing Tried to Kill a Great Airplane--and Got Outplayed
Source: Daily Beast
THE LITTLE JET THAT COULD
How Boeing Tried to Kill a Great Airplaneand Got Outplayed
The mindset that created the 737-MAX fiasco has cost Americas once unbeatable company its world-class status. Instead of innovating, it played dirty. Enter the A220.
Clive Irving
Updated 10.08.19 12:23PM ET / Published 10.08.19 5:05AM ET
As soon as Boeings top management understood what they were looking at they didnt like it.
Another company had produced a paragon of an airplane and they had nothing to match it. And so Boeing decided it had to do as much harm to that airplanes chances as it couldmost of all, to stop any American airline from buying it.
The company was Bombardier, based in Canada. The airplane was the Bombardier C Series, a single-aisle jet that, in several versions, could seat between 100 and 150 passengers.
What was striking about the C Series was that the Canadians had combined the most advanced technologies available into an airplane that was, as a result, a generation ahead of any similar size model.
Airlines would love it because its engines were so efficient that it was cheaper to operate than any rival. On domestic routes it could make as many as 11 flights in a day, with a turnaround time at gates of 35 minutes. Passengers would love it because the cabin was quiet, the seats not cramped, the air quality noticeably better, and baggage space generous.
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