After Airbus made a historic acquisition of nearly 300 passenger aircraft orders from China's three major state-owned airlines, Boeing on the other side of the Pacific could no longer sit still. It publicly expressed its dissatisfaction and blamed "geopolitics" for its sales failure. On the other hand, Boeing is also stepping up its plan to “internally circulate” passenger aircraft sales in the United States.
After the epidemic caused Delta to retire its Boeing 777 fleet early, they began to display a large model of the Airbus A350-900 in the lobby of their Atlanta headquarters. This is also a symbolic moment when Airbus begins to lead Delta Air Lines entire fleet renewal plan.
You must know that in 1997, Delta Air Lines publicly stated that it would only buy Boeing aircraft in the next 20 years!
Now that Boeing has lost a large number of orders in the East, it needs to win more domestic orders. The latest news from
shows that at this year’s Farnborough Air Show, Boeing is expected to win an order for 130 Boeing 737 MAX 10 passenger aircraft from Delta Airlines, including 100 confirmed orders and 30 optional orders. Deliveries of these aircraft are expected to begin in 2025.
If this order is implemented, it will be the largest order for the largest model in the 737 MAX series.
737 MAX 10 can accommodate 230 people in a single-cabin layout, and 188~204 people in a two-cabin layout. The 737 MAX 10 has the longest fuselage among the 737 MAX models - 43.8 meters. When equipped with an auxiliary fuel tank, the range is 6110 kilometers.
Delta’s order for one hundred 737 MAX passenger aircraft is of great significance to Boeing. Delta Air Lines is the only major U.S. airline that does not operate the 737 MAX.
As of July 2022, among the 877 passenger aircraft owned by Delta Air Lines, although there are 236 Boeing 737 aircraft, they are all 737NG aircraft - including 77 737 800 and 159 737-900ER.
Boeing’s latest 737MAX is not available at all.
Among the 915 passenger aircraft owned by American Airlines , the other two giant airlines in the United States, there are 345 Boeing 737 aircraft, 42 of which are 737 MAX 8 models.
United Airlines (United-Airlines) has 842 aircraft, 378 of which are Boeing 737 aircraft, of which 49 are 737 MAX aircraft.
The largest low-cost airline in the United States - Southwest Airlines (Southwest America) has 81 737 MAX8 passenger planes.
Compared with Boeing products, Delta Airlines prefers to purchase Airbus products, including Airbus' latest A220 passenger aircraft. Delta Air Lines has not been interested in Boeing products in recent years. They have not received Boeing passenger aircraft products for three years.
This American airline giant headquartered in Atlanta has been purchasing Airbus products one after another. Now, in addition to the A380, their fleet basically has the entire Airbus product line.
56 Airbus A220 (45 A220-100, 11 A220-300);
57 Airbus A319;
61 Airbus A320;
30 Airbus A321; 57 Airbus A330;
4 Airbus A350XWB . Delta’s behavior of “rabbits not eating grass from the edge of the nest” also makes Boeing very helpless. Therefore, the 737 MAX 10 is a "non-steamed steamed bun" for Boeing. They may not expect to compete with Airbus , but it is a recognition of the US aviation manufacturing industry.
Delta Air Lines was founded in 1925 and is one of the oldest commercial airlines in the world. It is currently the second largest airline in the world in terms of total domestic passenger mileage and passenger fleet size.
This is very embarrassing. Even Delta Air Lines did not approve of the 737 MAX before. Boeing can no longer blame "geopolitics", right?
You must know that Delta Air Lines purchased 100 A321neo passenger aircraft in 2017 and has 100 optional orders. The aircraft will be delivered in 2020, and the engine will be the Pratt & Whitney PW1133G-JM geared turbofan engine.
Boeing developed the MAX 10 mainly to curb the rapid development momentum of the A321neo. Of the 8,086 A320neo series orders Airbus has on hand, 4,211 are A321neo.
What is even more embarrassing for Boeing is that now airlines that want to buy the 737 MAX 10 cannot use it - the 737 MAX 10 has not yet obtained the airworthiness certificate .Boeing is also trying to prevent the 737 MAX 10 from applying the new Engine Indicator and Crew Alert System (EICAS), which has been on the plane for decades and can tell pilots what's wrong and provide pilots with advice on what to do. Instructions for solving the problem.
737 MAX 8 and 737 MAX 9 obtained airworthiness certification without EICAS, and Boeing also hopes that the 737 MAX 10 can also be certified without EICAS.
Zhang Juen, chief expert of aviation science communication of the China Association for Science and Technology, honorary vice chairman of the China Aeronautical Society , mentioned in the article "Commentary on China Airlines' ordering of A320 and rumored changes in CR929": "After the Boeing crash, my colleagues and I , also wrote an article calling for the fact that the basic 737 model is too old and the room for improvement has been exhausted. In addition to low-level errors such as the MCAS system, there are still problems in control, maneuverability, and safety because the fly-by-wire control system is not used. The inherent shortcomings are irreparable. This aircraft should not be purchased as much as possible. "
You still need to be strong, and the product is not easy to sell. It should be built with innovative and ingenuity spirit, rather than focusing on half a century. The previous model was patched.
