Boeing 737MAX airliner
The previous Boeing 737MAX airliner crash can be said to have caused the world to be nervous. As a result, Boeing’s stock price plummeted by tens of billions. Recently, Boeing claimed that it had repaired the 737 failure and successfully completed it with 90 people. The first flight has attracted worldwide attention. It has only been more than a year since this passenger plane was grounded to the first flight. Has Boeing really repaired it? Some military fans said that Boeing's move was anxious to grab the Chinese C919's 100 billion market, so the repair quality may not be satisfactory. It seems that Boeing is not even afraid of killing people in order to deal with the C919.
parked at Boeing airport waiting for delivery 737MAX
is Boeing’s latest passenger plane. The 737MAX was originally responsible for Boeing to seize the short- and medium-haul aviation market, especially the important task of dealing with up-and-coming stars such as the Chinese C919. There are hundreds of markets in many countries, but its safety has been questioned by two consecutive accidents last year. Soon after that, China first announced the grounding of the 737MAX, which eventually led to the decision of all countries to ground the 737MAX.
China C919
was made worse by the fact that shortly after the 737MAX was announced to be grounded globally, the epidemic broke out all over the world. This has brought a huge impact to the global aviation market. Major airlines are struggling with life and death. The inability to purchase new passenger aircraft has led to successive plummets in Boeing’s profits and stock price, and even forced layoffs twice within a year to survive. While Boeing was hit hard, China’s C919 passenger aircraft received good news one after another. Once the flight certificate test flight is completed, it will get the permission to operate in China, and it will be sold to the world in the future. The C919 has already received hundreds of domestic and foreign orders, and has snatched nearly 100 billion market from Boeing. This also forced Boeing to invest heavily in research and development to repair the 737MAX program in order to compete with the C919.
Boeing passenger aircraft factory
has announced the successful first flight of Boeing this time. Some experts believe that this does not mean that Boeing will be able to get out of the current predicament, although the US Aviation Administration has cancelled the ban on 737MAX and approved Boeing The first commercial flight of the 737MAX will be resumed shortly. However, other countries except the United States still have a wait-and-see attitude towards the 737MAX, hoping to observe the 737MAX's domestic operations for a period of time before resuming its operations in the country. This means Boeing cannot obtain a large number of orders immediately after the ban is lifted.
The 737MAX that is waiting to be repaired after it is built
Secondly, because the entire responsibility for the 737MAX accident lies with Boeing’s design defects, according to regulations, after a repair plan is developed, Boeing should also be responsible for investing resources to repair all the currently manufactured 737MAX. It should be understood that in order to maintain the operation of the production line, Boeing did not stop its production during the 737MAX was grounded. Now Boeing already has more than 200 737MAX inventory, which means that Boeing will still need to invest a lot of resources in the future. It will take a long time to repair all the 737MAX in the hands of the customer airlines before obtaining the flight permits from the aviation authorities of other countries.
C919 passenger plane
and the current progress of the flight test of China's C919 passenger plane is good. If all goes well, you can get China's airworthiness certificate in the near future and officially put it into domestic operation. C919 passenger plane and 737MAX have a considerable overlap in the scope of application. China’s epidemic control has been very successful, and Chinese domestic airlines have a very urgent need for new passenger aircraft after taking a breath. This means that during the period when the 737MAX has not obtained China’s flight permits, Chinese airlines that are in urgent need of new passenger aircraft are very likely. A large number of C919s will be purchased to abandon the 737MAX. You must know that Boeing originally expected that most of the 737MAX orders will come from China. This situation means that Boeing's plan is going to go bankrupt. This time Boeing is no longer able to cope with the rise of domestic passenger aircraft.
Author: Rolls-Royce