Boeing V.S Airbus
Two
of the most popular and famous airliners are Boeing and Airbus. Boeing and
Airbus are the largest jet airline in the world. Boeing is an American, on
other hand; Airbus is European. In the first nine months of 2013 Boeing is a
head of Airbus in deliveries, but Airbus is a head of Boeing in orders. Airbus has received 1,112 orders while delivering 445, and Boeing has received 890 orders while delivering 476. Competition is intense; each company
regularly accuses the other of receiving unfair state aid from their respective
governments.
Boeing and Airbus will always keep the duopoly
competition between how to build the aircraft, Boeing 747-8 compete directly
with A380 in the Capacity, Length, Price, and Fuel efficiency. Boeing holds 467 passengers in
a three-class configuration, Boeing length is 76 meters, the 747-8 costing
$317.5 million, and uses 2.8 liters of fuel per seat per 100 kilometers, on the
other hand Airbus holds
525 passengers in a three-class configuration, Airbus length
is 72.72 meters, the A380 costing $375.3
million, and uses 2.9 liters per passenger per 100 kilometers. (CNN, 2011).
There are a lot of aircrafts compete between Airbus and
Boeing, for example, the Airbus A350 competes with the high end of the Boeing
787 dream liner and the Boeing 777.The Airbus A320 is larger than the Boeing
737-700 but smaller than the 737-800. The Airbus A321 is larger than the Boeing
737-900 but smaller than the previous Boeing 757-200.
The difference between the Airbus and Boeing
manufactures are Boeing uses hydraulic approach and Airbus uses fly by wire
approach. Both aircraft manufacturers have good safety records on recently
manufactured aircraft. By convention, both companies tend to avoid safety
comparisons when selling their aircraft to airlines.
Boeing has 17,082 currently employees.
In comparison, Airbus has 59,000 from more than 100 nationalities. I
think there is no more duopoly; I think in the near future we will see another manufacture
comes out with safer aircraft.
References
CNN.
(2011). Boeing 747-8 vs. Airbus A380 -- the airline giants face off. Retrieved
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Harrison,
G. (2011, July 25). Challenge to the Boeing-airbus duopoly in civil aircraft:
Issues for competitiveness DOI: www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41925.pdf
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vs. Airbus: Can't we all just get along? Retrieved from cnn.com: http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2013/03/19/boeing-airbus-lion-air
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It is incredible just how close the two companies are in aircraft deliveries. One advantage that Airbus may have over Boeing is the number of people they employ all over the globe. People are the resources that make any business happen, and Airbus has around 35,000 more employees than Boeing, which could prove to be a huge advantage. I too would like to see a third competitor enter the scene and break the duopoly: although it would take some kind of fantastic aircraft to make that happen.
ReplyDeleteIt all goes to show you that companies are shaped by the industry they are selling in or to. These companies are completely separate yet are almost exactly the same in many instances. I am a true believer that the market creates the company, the company exists along side the consumers and both companies were shaped by the demands of the consumers that they were serving at the time. They are both big players in the industry and serve the same purpose with some specialty in each company but for the most part serve the exact same markets.
ReplyDeleteIt would be interesting to see stats that show the amount of service each company receives from their home base. Does Airbus receive more service outside of European continent and how much service does Boeing provide outside of the U.S. I agree competition is intense because really no other aircraft manufacturer can compete at this point on time.
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