Sources: Notes: Casewriter estimates; Lehman Brothers Equity Research Report, December 6, 1999; Airbus Industrie Global Market Forecast 2000. (D) Retirements are based on current fleet age and composition. (H) The number of seats per VLA is a function of the mix of plane types. (I) Does not include VLA freighters, which could represent another 315 new aircraft to be delivered by 2019, according to Airbus. Sensitivity to Growth and Conversion 1,235 0% 1% 2% 3% 4% 5% 6% 7% 8% 9% 10% 45% 154 204
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Global Partnering: The Boeing 787 Dreamliner Story? VERSION 1.2 This case was prepared using publicly available information by Sveinn Vidar Gudmundsson, Professor, Toulouse Business School, France. It is intended to be used as a basis for class discussion rather than to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of an administrative situation. Copyright © 2015 S V Gudmundsson, Toulouse, France. Global Partnering: The Boeing 787 Dreamliner Story? C28-1-2015-1.1 "In retrospect
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Boeing’s ‘Dreamliner’ – an Operations Nightmare 1 a) Boeing is the world’s largest aerospace company and leading manufacturer of commercial jetliners and defence, space and security systems. Boeing’s products and services include commercial and military aircraft. It also includes satellites, weapons electronic and defence systems. 1 b) There are many issues Boeing had faced in introducing new technology to its ‘Dreamliner’ plane. Firstly, they had ditched the more traditional hydraulic systems
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BOEING 787 DREAMLINER ANALYSIS The Boeing Dreamliner has been anything but dreamy for Boeing manufacturers. But this is not Boeing’s first go around with a newly designed aircraft running into what Boeing calls “teething” issues. Although the aircraft has come under serious scrutiny for a litany of issues, Boeing’s public relations have been quite calm. Instead of reacting dramatically to the media and contracted purchasers of the new 787, Boeing has kept very low key and suggests the problems
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COMPANY BACKGROUND The Boeing Corporation is amongst the most significant companies on the globe. Rivaled only simply by European huge Airbus from the aerospace industry, Boeing can be a head in study, design as well as manufacture connected with industrial aircraft airliners, with regard to industrial, commercial as well as military services shoppers. Irrespective of taking pleasure in immense accomplishment in it is marketplace as well as owning an industry that entirely understands design fineness
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handbook of aeronautical knowledge. (2008). Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration. AERO. (n.d.). AERO. Retrieved May 14, 2014, from http://www.boeing.com/commercial/aeromagazine/articles/2014_q1/archive.html Boeing 787 Dreamliner. (2014, November 5). Wikipedia. Retrieved
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Boeing: Selling a Dream(liner) Think about the biggest purchase that you’ve ever made. Was it a car? A computer? A piece of furniture or an appliance? Think about the time you put in to researching that decision, all the factors that you considered in making your choice, and how much the purchase ultimately cost. Now imagine that you are part of a buying team for a major airline considering the purchase of multiple commercial jets, each costing over $100 million. A slightly different situation
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Boeing 787 #3 Critics and not just union members were concerned with the massive amount of outsourcing that was occurring with the Boeing 787. It is debatable whether this criticism was fair since Boeing had its reasons to outsource so much of the 787’s work. These reasons include cost control, hopes to win orders from the countries in which they were outsourcing to, efficiency, and the difficult relations between Boeing and the labor unions. Critics were afraid of losing jobs are and knowing the
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Actual Performances vs Forecast / Benchmark 787- Jumbo The closer approximation to the A380, from either the technical side as well as the type of market served, is the Boeing 747 “Jumbo”. In terms of size the two giants are comparable. Both over 70 meters in length two decks and targeting long distance routes (for both the maximum distance above 8000 nautical miles). Given those similitudes it will be interesting to compare the performances in sales and market penetration. However one caveat would
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Building the Boeing 787 1. What are the benefits to Boeing of outsourcing so much work on the 787 to foreign suppliers? What are the potential risks? Do the benefits outweigh the risk? There are many benefits of outsourcing the work on the Boeing 787, they include: 1) reducing the risks associated with technological gamble (always up-to-date with the latest designs and innovations), 2) being able to negotiate development costs from different manufacturing partners in return for a share of the
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