Boeing Faces Longer Wait to Resume MAX Deliveries in China ¦ More safety checks are being planned on the undelivered planes following the Alaska Airlines blowout

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[–]yaiyen 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This would be bad idea for China, if one day USA sanction China then it will affect China. Russia is good example that it's bad idea to not have locally made planes

[–]ageingrockstar 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I've become an interested follower of the development of China's Comac C919 and Russia's Sukhoi Superjet 100.

The Chinese jet is further advanced, with a significant landmark achieved last year as the first jets went into commercial use (in China).

The Russian jet had to be redesigned to swap out all the imported parts subject to sanctions (including the engines). However, this has proceeded apace with the first import substituted jet undergoing test flights last year with the old engines and a second test vehicle with fully Russian engines scheduled to do test flights this year.

China will obviously get there first (it already has, with jets now in use) and has a larger internal market to support it. So they're the main prospect but it's good to have the Russian prospect as well. Then there's Brazil's Embraer jets too (in commercial use for decades now). So jets from 3 out of the original 5 BRICS countries.

For now, my position is to avoid Boeing and take Airbus. But keen to switch from Airbus to a BRC jet when the option is available.

[–]ageingrockstar 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Re Russian jets, the Superjet 100 is a smaller aircraft than the 737 or the Airbus A320. For the direct Russian competitor to these 2 aircraft, there is the Irkut MC-21 which has also implemented an import substitution redesign and retesting schedule.

[–]RandomCollection[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The new delay is the latest blow for Boeing in China after years of grappling with turbulent U.S.-China ties that have caught businesses in the crossfire, as the company worked to regain confidence of Chinese regulators and consumers in its aircraft.

Seems to me that it makes perfect sense. More strict safety standards are needed because Boeing messed up.

This whole 737 Max is a testament of what happens when profit takes precedent over safety.