Boeing Resisted Pilots’ Calls for Aggressive Steps on 737 Max

Re:Boeing Resisted Pilots’ Calls for Aggressive Steps on 737... by throwaway5752 on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @07:44PM (#19914968)

"Boeing discounted the 737 MAX by more than 70% to force Bombardier to sell the C-Series below cost, which forced Bombardier to sell a controlling share to Airbus for $0."

I don't know any better, but I thought - statements by the companies to the contrary aside - that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSeries_dumping_petition_by_Bo... is what drove the Airbus partnership.

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Re:Boeing Resisted Pilots’ Calls for Aggressive Steps on 737... by PaulHoule on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @07:48PM (#19914990)

Yes, that's part of the causal chain. Boeing forced Bombardier to sell below cost, and then filed a petition to accuse Bombardier of "dumping".

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Re:Boeing Resisted Pilots’ Calls for Aggressive Steps on 737... by robocat on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @09:18PM (#19915503)

There doesn't seem to be any links to that on Wikipedia. The only text I can find is: "After it had to cut its price by 70% to beat the CSeries for United Airlines in 2016, Boeing decided to act when the CSeries was offered to Delta at $10 million below its production cost".

Perhaps the Wikipedia page is being edited by Boeing?

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Re:Boeing Resisted Pilots’ Calls for Aggressive Steps on 737... by xrd on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @07:50PM (#19915009)

Wow, that's masterful. Incredible.

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Re:Boeing Resisted Pilots’ Calls for Aggressive Steps on 737... by mcv on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @03:42AM (#19917200)

So Boeing dumps, then accuses Bombardier of dumping? That's classy.

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Re:Boeing Resisted Pilots’ Calls for Aggressive Steps on 737... by snovv_crash on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @12:54PM (#19921324)

National dumping is unenforced, but for international dumping there are teeth

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Re:Boeing Resisted Pilots’ Calls for Aggressive Steps on 737... by ionised on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @08:42AM (#19918792)

Is this how the free market is supposed to work?

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Re:Boeing Resisted Pilots’ Calls for Aggressive Steps on 737... by sslayer on Thursday May 16, 2019 @11:41PM (#19936049)

I think you are confusing the word "fair" with free.

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