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foolm0r0n posted...

You missed the key stats then. Airbus started winning hard, which caused Boeing to rush with the 737 MAX to catch up. Maybe a pre-merger Boeing would've been competent enough to do a rush job properly, who knows. And also, the 787 is equally shit as the 737 MAX, but it's super successful, so that's a big win for McD if you're thinking that way.

Boeing failed to react appropriately because they moved their headquarters and started to make decisions without involving their engineers. It was their internal communication and self coordination that caused them to stop innovating and make short term profit/stock decisions rather than quality and superior production ones.

This isn't to say that Airbus didn't do things right for their own part, but I would sooner describe the situation as Airbus capitalizing on Boeing's collapse before I'd call it Boeing collapsing because Airbus was gaining on them.