
AvTalk Episode 201: Sending the last 747 home
AvTalk - Aviation Podcast
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Are We Going to Build More Airplanes?
Boeing has been above 52 airplanes per month before and actually that was in 2018, summer 2018, they were actually on their way to 57. But then the pandemic hits and it just like demand goes away while the line effectively is stopped. So now Boeing is on its way back up as Airbus went from 60 to 40 on the single aisle side A through 20s during the pandemic. And then Boeing went from 42 to zero. It's basically saying we can't build aircraft as quickly as we want to at our existing factory. so we're just going to build more aircraft by building aircraft slowly.
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