The US plane manufacturer Boeing has begun flying 737 Max jets that were refused by Chinese airline customers back to the United States, as the trade war between the world’s two biggest economies escalates.
  • Bieren@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    12 hours ago

    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.”

    • plz1@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      12 hours ago

      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.

  • c1a5s1c@feddit.orgEnglish
    4·
    15 hours ago

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

  • justsomeguy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    84·
    1 day ago

    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.

    • StinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.caEnglish
      341·
      1 day ago

      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.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    1 day ago

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

    • philpo@feddit.orgEnglish
      2·
      2 minutes 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

    • tomatolung@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      4·
      21 hours 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.