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posted by martyb on Tuesday April 14 2020, @11:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the management-induced-flight-into-terrain dept.

Boeing customers cancel staggering 150 Max plane orders, deepening crisis as coronavirus roils air travel:

Boeing customers canceled a staggering number of 737 Max orders last month, deepening the crisis the company faces amid the coronavirus pandemic and the continued grounding of its bestselling plane after two fatal crashes.

The Chicago-based manufacturer on Tuesday posted 150 cancellations of its beleaguered 737 Max jets in March, the most in decades, the company said. Brazilian airline Gol canceled 34 of the narrow-body planes and leasing firm Avolon scrapped orders for 75 of them, a move it announced earlier this month. Net cancellations in the month totaled 119 thanks to 31 orders for wide-body passenger planes and military aircraft.

That brought net orders Boeing removed from its order list in [the]first three months of the year to 307 planes, a sharp turnaround for a company that just over a year ago was aiming to increase output of its planes to meet strong demand.

[...] Boeing's airline customers are now facing the steepest drop in demand ever recorded because of Covid-19 and harsh measures like stay-at-home orders to slow its spread. The pandemic comes on top of the more than year-long grounding of the 737 Max after 346 people were killed in two crashes.

Alternate source: Yahoo finance

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I wonder. If the 737 MAX had not been grounded, would those orders have been cancelled, despite the Covid-19 downturn in airline flights.
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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by krishnoid on Wednesday April 15 2020, @04:06AM (5 children)

    by krishnoid (1156) on Wednesday April 15 2020, @04:06AM (#982915)

    This is so basic any high school QA would catch it.

    This is a really good point. Is QA or unit testing taught and/or required as part of programming courses? It's one of the handful of items that closes the loop on programming and I suspect it's still not actually part of programming courses.

    I've started thinking that software development needs to be embraced in schools as a trade, not as an extension of computer science as an extension of mathematics. We have basic best practices that aren't yet "building codes" for building code, and then you get whole groups of people who pull the kind of crap that happened to you.

    The FDA has just started to require code quality and cybersecurity standards via UL 2900 [ul.com]. It's a good question as to whether or not they can audit and/or enforce it, though.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 15 2020, @04:34AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 15 2020, @04:34AM (#982924)

    Taught or not. The whole devops thing is now dev-ba-qa-sec-ops. The bean counter were so happy that they can role all those into 1 and pay for 1 headcount instead of 5. I kid you not, I work in a place where it has actually happened.

    The devs that stayed just ignore everything else, keep their heads down and cut code, filling in blanks as they see fit as along as shit gets into prod at some point and does burn and crash _immediately_, everything's good. When the shit hits the fan later, the culture is such that all people only remember the superheroes that put out the fire and give them a trophy.

    Management would point to some unfortunate "thing" that fell through the cracks and reference tons of manuals on controls and policies that was adhered to (supposedly) - a smokescreen for their incompetence which works pretty well as the non-tech business sponsors would have no clue. The more entrepreneurial bean counters would point to "under investment" due rejection of past "bright ideas" to turn it into "I told you so moment" and hoodwink more budget to fund their "off-site" management junkets or to pad their bonus.

    Rinse and repeat.

    • (Score: 2) by krishnoid on Wednesday April 15 2020, @10:15PM

      by krishnoid (1156) on Wednesday April 15 2020, @10:15PM (#983265)

      Can you post this on dailywtf? I found this particularly valuable.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by RS3 on Wednesday April 15 2020, @06:20AM (2 children)

    by RS3 (6367) on Wednesday April 15 2020, @06:20AM (#982954)

    > Is QA or unit testing taught and/or required as part of programming courses?

    Isn't it generally part of Agile? And that begs the question: do they teach Agile in schools?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 15 2020, @09:37AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 15 2020, @09:37AM (#982980)

      "Agile"?

      I thought that was MBA speak for "Take the Money and Run"!

      • (Score: 2) by RS3 on Wednesday April 15 2020, @03:05PM

        by RS3 (6367) on Wednesday April 15 2020, @03:05PM (#983078)

        May be true. I see it as MBAspeak for "I have to feel important and controlling."