The boss of Ryanair has threatened to cancel orders with American aircraft maker Boeing and buy from Chinese manufacturers instead if Donald Trump’s trade tariffs push up costs.
I woulda cancelled Boeing orders after the killed the whistle blower and the door fell off mid flight. But what do I know I’m not an airline CEO
That was different. Nobody got poorer because of that. Now airline CEO is feeling it and suddenly has opinions.
It’s a cost/risk calculation. It can still be cheaper to buy the dangerous planes as long as the lawsuits cost less than the savings.
Yeah sadly this is the case. Plenty of large corporations break regulations and write of fines as a cost of operations. Same with lawsuits.
The problem here is they wanna replace the planes with Chinese planes. It’s not about avoiding authoritarian regimes, they could’ve just went with European Airbus if that was their goal. Ryanair CEO does not care about any ethics. Money is the motivation here, not bad things that USA does
According to another comment here the reason is Airbus has a backlog of 8720 jets.