Did a 1997 merger ruin Boeing?

Re:Did a 1997 merger ruin Boeing? by kazen44 on Thursday January 11, 2024 @03:06PM (#38958203)

airbus was made as a very deliberate political project from various european countries to stay competitive in the airline bussiness.

Mind you this happened around the same time many foundations of a lot of european institutions where formed, and airbus is the primary example of a intra-european company in both its bussiness form (being an S.E[0]) aswell as in the way its products get build across different member states.

Airbus has done the thing that the EU aims to do on a political scale, merge many different smaller european entities to stay competitive against both the US and China on the global scale.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Societas_Europaea

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Re:Did a 1997 merger ruin Boeing? by yongjik on Thursday January 11, 2024 @07:10PM (#38961596)

Which makes Airbus even more impressive, TBH. How many "deliberate political project from various countries to stay competitive in the X business" can you think of that actually became successful?

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Re:Did a 1997 merger ruin Boeing? by midland_trucker on Thursday January 11, 2024 @07:44PM (#38961912)

Arianespace of course a huge success for a brief period, until it wasn't.

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Re:Did a 1997 merger ruin Boeing? by truculent on Thursday January 11, 2024 @08:50PM (#38962523)

Boeing feels interesting through this lens, too - tracking the rise and decline of American business culture

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Re:Did a 1997 merger ruin Boeing? by fomine3 on Thursday January 11, 2024 @09:11PM (#38962713)

Interesting question. ASML?

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Re:Did a 1997 merger ruin Boeing? by berkes on Friday January 12, 2024 @02:52AM (#38965292)

ASML was one company formed out of Philips' microchip division (NXP the other part from that division).

So it's not a company built by politicians from many European companies AFAIK.

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