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.
Yeah, that’s not how that works.
Maybe where you shop.
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.
Does the deal come with gargling autocrat jizz or do you throw that in for free?
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.