FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Safety and quality problems faced by Boeing, particularly since an in-flight incident earlier this year, risk shaking travelers’ confidence in air travel, a senior Boeing executive said. Airbus.
Speaking to German weekly WirtschaftsWoche, Christian Scherer, chief executive of Airbus’ commercial aircraft division, said the problems were “a burden for the entire industry.”
“Boeing’s problems could lead more people to question flight safety,” he continued.
Since the emergency landing on January 5 of an Alaska Airlines 737 MAX after a part detached from the fuselage, Boeing has come under increasing pressure to improve its factory controls.
Christian Scherer rejected the idea that, faced with Boeing’s setbacks, Airbus could raise the price of its planes, stressing that setting prices depends solely on demand, currently higher than supply, and that it is difficult to predict how the situation will develop in the future.
“I have no hesitation in saying that a competitor in difficulty can behave in a relatively unpredictable manner. If a company unwittingly has dozens of planes in stock, it can engage in a massive sell-off,” he said. .
(Reporting Christoph Steitz; Claude Chendjou)
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