European planemaker Airbus plans to show off its newest passenger jet with daily flight demonstrations during one of the world’s biggest aviation trade fairs.
FILE - Security members watch a Boeing 777 at the Farnborough Air Show fair in Farnborough, England, July 18, 2022. An ongoing safety and manufacturing crisis has Boeing keeping a lower profile at the 2024 Farnborough International Air Show, which kicks off Monday in England. plans to show off its newest passenger jet with daily flight demonstrations during one of the world's biggest aviation trade fairs.
Boeing’s “customers have been very supportive,” said Pope, who’s a successor to Calhoun. But “It still doesn’t take away the reality that we’ve disappointed them. And we’ve impacted their business.”While Airbus will take part in the aerial displays above the town of Farnborough with its new passenger jet, the A321XLR, Boeing won’t have any passenger jets doing flypasts for the air show crowds though it will have one of its F-15 fighter jets.
This time, Boeing has “got to be seen as being more contrite, that they’re focusing on safety, getting their house in order, getting back to winning back trust and respect as a dependable manufacturer of safe, commercially driven aircraft," Strickland said. Some analysts have forecast that the Farnborough air show may result in as many as 1,000 new aircraft orders for the two companies, along with some for smaller regional jet makers like“Not to say there will not be anything, but I don’t think we’re going to get massive, big headline orders that we’ve had in the past or launches for new aircraft,” Strickland said., allowing Airbus to quietly build its sales lead.
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