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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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 15 2020, @05:54AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 15 2020, @05:54AM (#982950)

    Shouldn't we have a metric clock? There could be 10 hours in the day, each one 100 minutes long. The day would therefore be a kilominute. The second could be set equal to a centiminute.

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday April 15 2020, @05:58AM (1 child)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday April 15 2020, @05:58AM (#982951) Journal

    If you changed the clock that much, the US would never, ever, EVER switch to it. Besides which, neither Europe nor the military has ever suggested changing away from the 24 hour clock. What would be the benefit?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 15 2020, @02:35PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 15 2020, @02:35PM (#983064)

      10 is not divisible by 3, so it would wreck havoc on any shift schedule. The only reasonable one i can see would be 4 x 2.5 decimal hour shifts (6 normal hours), that could be attractive (or not). I guess you could do the 3.33 metric hour shift, but that seems awkward.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 15 2020, @06:27AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 15 2020, @06:27AM (#982958)

    But since the second is already an SI base unit, we'll have to slow the rotation of the earth to get a 100 kilosecond day (for an extra 114 metric minutes of work time each day.) And while we're at it we could speed up the planet's orbit to shave off 360 metric minutes and reduce the year to 315 metric days that would divide evenly into 9 metric months of 35 days each and get rid of leap years too. Who could possibly object to that?