Half a year ago, Boeing’s best seller, the 737 Max has been proven around the world with being banned. Two crashes have shaken the confidence in the machines deep. It remains unclear whether the aircraft can take off again.
Two crashes of the best-selling aircraft model 737 Max have made the aviation giants Boeing of the success-oriented world market leader in the event of a crisis. A year and a half after the accident pilots worldwide have been occupied with the start of forbidden, the uncertainty is large. What time is allowed to take off, the 737 Max again? Only one thing is clear so far: The longer the drags on re-admission, the precarious and expensive it will be. This is true for Boeing, but also for Airlines and suppliers – in short: the entire aviation industry.
Prior to the Boeing factory in Renton, near the US West coast metropolis of Seattle in the state of Washington, the debacle is overlooked now. Even in the employee Parking lot the new 737-Max Jets, which can not be shipped to customers are nail. Boeing has cut the 737 production in the course of the flight bans by 20 percent, however, are made in the hope of a rapid re-admission more about 42 machines per month. The need to be in Renton and elsewhere stored.
Long List Of Damage
For Boeing, the forced delivery means stop, therefore, is not only massive business losses, but also the large logistical effort. According to US media, the company needs the temporary closure of hundreds of additional employees that take care of storage and maintenance of the aircraft. A Boeing spokesman would not comment specifically. However, on the Job-site of the group, a number of appropriate services. The current costs for Boeing are already immense.
Throttled production: the Boeing plant in Renton
In the second quarter alone, the 737-Max debacle a brockte the Airbus-rival a record loss equivalent to 2.6 billion euros. Sales fell 35 percent to the equivalent of 14 billion Euro. Boeing’s entire damage balance was forbidden, since the in March imposed a Flight, according to the financial service Bloomberg by the end of June to the equivalent of $ 7.5 billion. Relief it was since, on the contrary, There are more complaints, conflicts and problems were added, which are likely to delay a re-authorisation of the 737 Max all the more.
Dubious certification of the 737 Max
As the ultimate cause of the plane crashes in Indonesia, and Ethiopia, where, in October and March, a total of 346 people were killed, is a faulty control software of Boeing. The manufacturer is suspected to have brought the 737 Max under high pressure of competition by the European arch-rival Airbus rushed to the market and to have the security of being neglected.
Boeing denies this, but has given to various mishaps and errors. In the US, there are numerous claims and investigations, whether at the time of certification, the 737 Max, all went well. Since the original approval of the Krisenjets the US-aviation authority FAA in the criticism world, there may be disagreement as to when the machines are allowed to withdraw.
So far, the US line was international followed, but this time there could be resistance. No wonder: The FAA should have provided important tests of the 737 Max first, Boeing itself. Whether the authority has violated its obligations, is the subject of an investigation. Fixed: a Lot of trust is already lost.
Forced break for Airlines and suppliers
Alexandre de Juniac, chief of the world airline Association IATA, said recently that she was “troubled and disappointed” by the lack of Unity between the Supervisory authorities. The Boeing always well-informed “Seattle Times” and the British BBC reported consistent criticism of the European aviation authority, EASA, the re-approval process. Accordingly, the Boeing prospect of Upgrades to the 737 Max will not go to the Europeans enough – the EASA wishes to perform their own Tests before it gives the green light.
Deep wounds – accident location of the crash in Ethiopia
Despite all the uncertainty, Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg continues to assume that the accident pilot could be taken in November and again in operation. There are “good, solid” progress on the planned Software Updates to the 737 Max, said Muilenburg on Wednesday. But the Rest of the aviation industry is getting ready for a long forced break. The US carriers United and American Airlines have deleted the 737 Max as a precaution to December from the flight schedules, Southwest Airlines until the beginning of January. Also, if the companies try to substitute, many flights. In the meantime, the entire aviation industry is groaning under the Boeing-crisis and burdened with increasingly the US economy.
Also, suppliers such as Spirit AeroSystems, and General Electric get the misery to feel it. The consequences of the start of the prohibitions have reduced the annual U.S. growth rate by calculating the analysis house of Capital Economics in the second quarter by 0.25 percentage points. At Boeing, many jobs and much economic power, therefore, it would be for the US economy is of high importance that the crisis pilot will be brought to the 737 Max back in the air.
Long lists in the case of Airbus waiting
However, Boeing’s chief Executive, Muilenburg has prepared the Public to further setbacks. A re-authorisation of the Jets should take longer than planned, could be exposed to the production of more reduced or even completely, warned the top Manager in July. As the big winners of Boeing’s debacle easy to archrival Airbus would make. In fact, it seems safe to say that the Europeans will remove the US Corporation in 2019 for the first time in years, the title as the largest plane manufacturer in the world.
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Nevertheless, it would be short-sighted, that Airbus finds a great liking to the problems of the counterparty. So the game space, in which the group of Boeing’s weakness may benefit keeps, already in limits. The companies form a duopoly on the aircraft market, and they are both fully booked for years, so customers have few Alternatives. Anyone who cancels their 737 Max order with Boeing, would have to wait in line at Airbus at the very back, and for years on planes.
It’s about the confidence to fly
And also, in principle, Airbus may have no interest, that the industry is permanently in trouble – especially when it comes to the confidence to fly in and of itself. While Boeing and other companies calculate to the crash of your financial burdens, remain the human suffering and the grief of the families is immense. In Ethiopia, the authorities have completed the identification of the victims. “We have managed to identify the body parts of the victims within two months”, – stated in the Addis Ababa Declaration of the competent Commission of inquiry.
A total of 8185 pieces of debris were collected, therefore, body parts, documents, bags, and other Luggage at the scene of the accident and meticulously scrutinized. In the investigation, even Interpol was involved. According to the information of the passengers and crew were among the Victims members from 35 countries.
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