Boeing sales tumble as the company gets no orders for the 737 Max for the second straight month : technology

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 298 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

GOOD. How are those profits looking now, you murderous fucks?

[-] dyathinkhesaurus@lemmy.world 167 points 5 months ago

They'll just sack some more engineers to cut costs, and hire more sales & marketing.

[-] Allonzee@lemmy.world 77 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Unlike a lot of sectors though, Airbus knows what they're doing and is a high profile alternative, and unlike the US, hasn't yet completely internalized our sociopathic greed disease to our degree, despite the global economic pressure we inflict on other nations encouraging them to betray and cause harm to their own societies and citizens if it means an extra nickel of short term private profit.

Don't worry though, the UK has fallen to the greed disease, and our capitalists are bribing and coercing their way eastward, and they won't stop until they either are physically stopped by something like climate change, or successfully make the world forget that Economies are lowly tools that are supposed to exist solely to benefit the people of the society they are a lowly tool for.

[-] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 23 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

won’t stop until they […] are physically stopped by something like climate change

Ah I see you're an optimist.

[-] Allonzee@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I have just come to acceptance with who we are, and enjoy the accidental poetry of our reckless worship of greed/gluttony/growth/metastasis being our, accelerating going by the latest science still going on deaf ears, end.

I also enjoy all the very corporate culture like bargaining that's going on with cold, hard, unflinching physics. Oh we won't make our non-binding emissions goals and grid standards, so we'll just roll those back, the climate will understand!

We're tackling our own self-inflicted, reverse terraforming climate disaster with the stages of grief because we refuse to stop and change how we live to find homeostasis with this world, so this isn't going to end well, and just like with clean coal/corn ethanol/plant a tree offsets/planet scale carbon scrubbers and all the other private profit driven snake oil "solutions," we aren't going to science up a magic bullet to save us from the epically irresponsible actions of our epically irresponsible species.

[-] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

we aren’t going to science up a magic bullet to save us from the epically irresponsible actions of our epically irresponsible species.

In-fuckin-deed. All the talk about "carbon capture" schemes makes my skin crawl.

Well it's either that or delusional parasitosis that makes my skin crawl, but anyhow.

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[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 13 points 5 months ago

Also Boeing is buying back it's fuselage supplier that it originally spun of into it's own business (because it wasn't profitable for Boeing back then).

The problem now is that supplier also makes fuselages for Airbus. So Boeing is gonna be making them for Airbus...

[-] Allonzee@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

Oof. Oligopolies/duopolies shouldn't exist, but here we are.

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[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

More sales people to handle all the sales they’re not getting?

[-] MaggiWuerze@feddit.de 19 points 5 months ago

An engineer makes engines and a sales persons makes sales, right?

[-] kevincox@lemmy.ml 10 points 5 months ago

Actually a sailor makes sales.

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[-] motor_spirit@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago

they need to make a reality show out of what it looks like to be held accountable and go through the justice system, using some of these soulless pieces of shit as examples. showcase the turmoil of the disgraced family torn apart and offer no help. the public can laugh at their pain the same way they certainly laugh at the issues of the common people they neglect and oppress.

[-] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 12 points 5 months ago

Essentially John Oliver’s episode on Boeing.

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[+] ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world 94 points 5 months ago

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[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 45 points 5 months ago

Despite the recent slow sales, Boeing still has a huge backlog of over 5,600 orders

I wonder what those orders are? They could be mainly orders for extra bolts.

[-] Flipper@feddit.de 57 points 5 months ago

Not sure if this is serious. Boeing and Airbus are booked with orders for the next several years. They both could not get a single new order and would have work to do for the next half decade.

[-] Hildegarde@lemmy.world 30 points 5 months ago

Several years is an understatement. At current rates of production it will take at least 14 years to fulfill all orders.

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[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago

for extra bolts.

Extra self sealing stem bolts probably

[-] PlasticExistence@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

I would trust the Ferengi more than Boeing executives at this point.

[-] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

And so you should. Our products are of the highest quality.

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[-] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 68 points 5 months ago

What year is it? The 737 Max was a certified death trap since 2018.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneuvering_Characteristics_Augmentation_System

[-] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

This. I made sure to never set foot in a newer Boeing since those grounded models were ungrounded.

[-] nick@midwest.social 61 points 5 months ago

lol. lmao.

Get fucked Boeing.

[-] Melt@lemm.ee 55 points 5 months ago

They might start sending assassins to threaten their buyers soon

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[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 53 points 5 months ago

shit falling apart, again and again and again and...

"y u no buy our shit? :("

[-] the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 46 points 5 months ago

If this continues, bailout incoming

[-] MisterD@lemmy.ca 19 points 5 months ago

Let them fail!

[-] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Same company that has the Starliner with leaks staying at the ISS. Not a good look.

Marketing department is going to be working overtime.

The brand new 737 Boeing Goeing. Cheaper than all others on the market with a 15 year warranty. Gaurenteed to keep you Goeing. For fucks sake, we're Boeing.

This is a whole new remodeled version of our Max that had various issues that concerned our buyers. Now, we've added an onboard AI that will detect which items to advertise to customers based off past sales and gender/sex/age/height/and weight. Up your sales numbers guaranteed to increase from the info we scrape off the Internet or buy from Google directly. Built in auto serve tray so the hosts don't need to find the orders, they are auto placed on a exiting conveyor that feeds right onto the cart you roll up!

These beauties are all thrown in for free when you invest in your future that's Goeing places.

*Doors may become from nowhere, wheels may fall off, leaks may occur, but your profits will skyrocket. Landings not guaranteed.

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[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 44 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

No need to worry, following what the CEO of Boeing called a "quality escape" regarding a door falling off, Boeing is now just facing a profit and customer escape.

https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/boeing-alaska-airlines-door-plug-b2477577.html

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[-] echodot@feddit.uk 30 points 5 months ago

I also haven't bought one.

This shows that there must be actual problems with their aircraft though because airlines are not going to care about public attitude, due to the company's politics. But if they are genuinely unsafe vehicles or have the potential to be unsafe vehicles, then they'll stay away.

[-] linearchaos@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago

If public attitude ever got significant enough that they couldn't fill a certain model of plane they would definitely stop buying them, that said I'm not sure we're at that point.

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[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 29 points 5 months ago

I’m sure the millionaire dipshits who cut corners and killed people are super worried.

laughs in golden parachute

[-] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 28 points 5 months ago

Won’t someone please buy our airborne death trap?

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[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 26 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yeah, yeah, but the executives that took the various decisions that made Boeing what it is now are even more millionaire than when they started at Boeing and will not see the inside of a jail cell, ever.

So we can all rest easy knowing that those we are constantly told are the most important people who deserve to be paid so much because of being risk takers and wealth creators, will be just fine, as if a few "nobody" whistleblowers had to be taken out, well, that's a price the trully important risk taking wealth creators were willing to pay.

[-] Traegert@lemm.ee 19 points 5 months ago

I was watching this Korean show, they made a whole huge deal about a corporation stealing 5 billion won from the public. I literally burst out laughing when I googled the conversion and it's 3.5 mil USD, big corporations here steal that amount in a quarter second just by breathing yet in Korea it's apparently an amount worthy of its own entire show. US is such a fucked oligarchy.

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[-] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 25 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The 737 Max is a garbage product they crashed and burned with their MCAS woes. They should give up the iconic product line and go all in on selling the safer 777 as its replacement. Yes, its built for a greater range, but the 777 hasn't been fucked with in terms of fail-deadly systems yet, and its the safest plane Boeing has in its fleet.

Boeing's customers are already out-ordering other models over the 737 Max, the decision is being made for them!

If they do nothing, Airbus will get enough orders to expand its factories and blow through its backlog.

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[-] generichate1546@lemmynsfw.com 19 points 5 months ago

This is the greed that was awesome for the fuckers profiting of cutting the costs of engineering....now we reap the benefits of losing a worldwide prominence in aviation because some scum from McDonald Douglass wanted to get rich...at American expense.

[-] Beaver@lemmy.ca 17 points 5 months ago

Boeing got ruined in the name of capitalism.

[-] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 5 months ago

The most surprising thing here to me is that someone was buying a 737 Max 3 months ago.

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[-] Audacious@sh.itjust.works 12 points 5 months ago

Deserved.

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