French airplane maker Airbus is “not happy” about the plethora of issues facing its U.S. competitor Boeing, according to its primary monetary officer.
“We’re not happy with the issues that our competitor’s having. I think it’s not helpful for the industry, and if it’s not helpful for the industry, it’s not helpful for Airbus,” Thomas Toepfer informed CNBC’s Charlotte Reed in an interview Thursday.
“We do think that we have very good products. And we have seen this in the very good order intake that we’ve seen in 2023. And that is simply continuing also in 2024.”
Boeing is under extreme pressure after a series of pricey and reputationally destructive events. A door plug on among its 737 Max 9 airplane burnt out throughout an Alaska Airlines flight onJan 5, over which it is now dealing with a claim and a Federal Aviation Administration examination.
That followed 2 deadly crashes in 2018 and 2019 including the 737 Max, its successful airplane, which dented public rely on the business and raised major concerns about its culture and quality assurance procedures.
The fuselage plug location of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 Boeing 737 -9 MAX, which was required to make an emergency situation landing with a space in the fuselage, is seen throughout its examination by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) in Portland, Oregon, U.S. January 7, 2024.
NTSB|Via Reuters
Concerns have actually on the other hand installed that airplane makers are under excessive pressure to increase the speed of production as airline companies deal with a capability crunch.
Toepfer informed CNBC, “The way I would look at it is … it’s a factor that makes us even think more, how can we make sure that these things will never happen at Airbus?”
“We’re obsessed by the thought, and therefore we have put even more scrutiny in terms of our production processes. We have even put more emphasis on the long-term investments that we’re making in terms of products, but also technology. And I think that has served us very well in the past, we’re continuing exactly along this path.”
Aviation employers– much of whom have big exceptional Boeing orders– have actually normally revealed their continuous self-confidence in the business over the last 6 years of chaos. However, a group of airline company president just recently asked for a conference with Boeing’s board to reveal their issue over the Alaska Airlines mess and production problems, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
Michael O’Leary, the outspoken head of affordable provider Ryanair, dramatically slammed Boeing’s handling of the 737 Max crisis and its management in an interview with Skift today.
Like other airline companies, Ryanair has actually made the extremely effective, single-aisle jet core to its development and fleet renewal method.
