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of getting big jobs done. It involves planning, for a start...
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1. They tried to emulate the Airbus business model honed over at that time thirty-five years overnight.
2. They ignored that in the beginning the constituent parts of Airbus had extensive experience building airplanes. At the inception of Airbus the consortium members had successfully delivered commercial aircraft independently.
Boeing's partners were chosen based on the government subsidies in their given jurisdiction rather than any particular ability to perform.
Boeing will eventually get it right, but only after Airbus and their customers beat them upside the head for years and years.
The problem with Boeing since the 70's has been they're arrogant and oblivious in the face of emerging competition and their own customers needs. There never would have been an Airbus without Boeing refusing to build the twin-engine widebody demanded by Eastern Airlines and American Airlines in 1966. The required specs made their way to French industrialist Roger Béteille and the rest is history. As the Europeans were setting about building the airplane Boeing wouldn't a Boeing executive snapped to a reporter that Airbus would build a dozen A300's and then go out of business.
Didn't work out that way and the last A300 was built in 2007.
