With estimated $55m price set to balloon by 125%, 737 Max returns to Seattle production hub still wearing the colours of Xiamen Airlines
A Boeing jet intended for a Chinese airline landed back at the planemaker’s US production hub on Sunday, a victim of the tit-for-tat bilateral tariffs launched by Donald Trump.
The 737 MAX, which was meant for China’s Xiamen Airlines, landed at Seattle’s Boeing Field at 6.11pm, according to a Reuters witness. It was painted with Xiamen livery.
The jet, which made refuelling stops in Guam and Hawaii on its 5,000-mile (8,000-km) return journey, was one of several 737 MAX jets – Boeing’s bestselling model – that had been waiting at Boeing’s Zhoushan completion centre for final work and delivery.
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pennomi@lemmy.world · 66 pts · 1y
foggy@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 1y
Yeah this certainly isn't going to plan.
Big tax cuts for the wealthy don't help them of the oligarch's companies start failing due to market forces.
whodrankarnoldpalmer@startrek.website · 18 pts · 1y
Turns out simplistic easily-repeated talking points aren’t a plan
foggy@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y
It's... A semblance of a plan, if you will.
match@pawb.social · 11 pts · 1y
Concepts?
kmartburrito@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
All we need now is a 3" binder full of empty white pages to represent the volume of the concepts we have
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 1y
I'm thinking Portugal's returning the Lockheed Martin units will cause an even bigger hit to their pocket change. With Germany and a tiny other country rethinking their orders and considering cancelling remaining shipments, it could dent the GDP a bit.
Skunk@piefed.social · 18 pts · 1y
It’s a good time to be a ferry pilot, you can get paid twice now.
NABDad@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y
I'm curious if China has to pay the return shipping, or did it qualify for free returns.
Witchfire@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y
15% restocking fee, and store credit only
NABDad@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y
That's what you get for not checking the "Prime" checkbox when searching for a 737 on Amazon.
Hopefully they kept the packaging.
altphoto@lemmy.today · 0 pts · 1y
Chicklets if its OK with their mom.
HowAbt2morrow@futurology.today · -5 pts · 1y
Boeing: No receipt, no return. Sorry Mate.
Tiger@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 1y
Seems China had kept and presented said recipe and succeeded in returning the product.
wanderingmagus@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
Yeah, that's not how that works.
HowAbt2morrow@futurology.today · 0 pts · 1y
Maybe where you shop.
wanderingmagus@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
It's not how it works because China can make the whole global economy a very, very bad day for Boeing very, very easily, being one of the three geopolitical superpowers, a nuclear armed nation, and the largest manufacturer on the planet. Kind of like how a small shop can't say "No receipt, no return. Sorry Mate." to, say, Vladimir Putin's face, and expect to still be breathing the next week.
HowAbt2morrow@futurology.today · 1 pts · 1y
Does the deal come with gargling autocrat jizz or do you throw that in for free?
wanderingmagus@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
I'm just telling it the way it is. I said nothing about supporting it, but facts don't care whether I support them or not.
Tiger@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y
Seems China had kept and presented said recipe and succeeded in returning the product.