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.

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.

Bloomberg reported earlier this week that China had instructed airlines to stop taking delivery of Boeing jets.

  • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    36·
    1 day ago

    The fall of boeing is all in all a good thing for the US. These too big to fail companies are a severe liability.

    • aramova@infosec.pub
      15·
      1 day ago

      Who says they’re going to fail?

      The machine to have taxpayers eat the cost of those planes is already grinding away. They probably won’t be used, likely sit somewhere and decay, but we’ll pay for them.

      The whole point of too big to fail is you get bailed out when you start to.

      • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        9 hours ago

        They wont because they will get enough welfare to be propped up until they screw up and start to fail again.