If the article is right and Dubai represents a big part of those cancellations, then I'm sure this cancellation was no real surprise to anyone inside Boeing.

A few years ago The Economist had a feature on Dubai, highlighting how they were building a financial services oriented economy out there in the desert. I was like, yeah, that won't work.

H31N0US: If the article is right and Dubai represents a big part of those cancellations, then I'm sure this cancellation was no real surprise to anyone inside Boeing.

A few years ago The Economist had a feature on Dubai, highlighting how they were building a financial services oriented economy out there in the desert. I was like, yeah, that won't work.

Hey, they have extravagantly expensive living spaces too! in the middle of the desert! Who among the rich and famous wouldn't just die to live out in the desert in the middle of nowhere?

Barakku: Hey, they have extravagantly expensive living spaces too! in the middle of the desert! Who among the rich and famous wouldn't just die to live out in the desert in the middle of nowhere?

In a country where pretty much everything fun is illegal. Sure, they look the other way, but you only have to piss off the wrong person and suddenly that shiat becomes enforceable.

H31N0US: A few years ago The Economist had a feature on Dubai, highlighting how they were building a financial services oriented economy out there in the desert. I was like, yeah, that won't work.

I thought they were building a luxury tourism-based economy.

Because that works so well for Egypt.

/Egypt is a shiathole
//weren't Dubai's plans meant to sustain them once the oil dried up?
///is the oil all dried up?

FishyFred: ///is the oil all dried up?

I don't think the UAE ever had much oil to begin with.

eraser8: Dreamliner? Pshaw.

I want beaming technology.

Forget about the beaming! This time, I'm walking.

eraser8: Dreamliner? Pshaw.

I want beaming technology.

I've seen Spaceballs enough times to be skeptical of those. You think it's bad now when they loose your luggage.

:)

SCREW BOEING AND THEIR PUSH TO MAKE EVERYONE A CONTRACT EMPLOYEE.

THIS PRETTY MUCH SUMS IT U
Boeing Picks Up Some Aerospace Engineers Outside Home Depot (new window)

I suppose one good thing about the dreamliner is that it'll help the thousands of Americans, who have to start working overseas to make a living wage, commute

FishyFred: //weren't Dubai's plans meant to sustain them once the oil dried up?
///is the oil all dried up?

Last I heard, expect that to happen in 2016.

FishyFred: I thought they were building a luxury tourism-based economy.

It's a turn-based economy. My grandfather lives there and is still waiting for the next round. His last move he made in 6th grade.

I assume this is th exact same bullshiat story as the ones boeing shills put out about airbus, but in reverse?

Times are hard selling planes, but the new ones from these companies will be the dominant planes in the sky for many years to come. Both of them.

FTFA:Cancellations to the company's delayed Boeing 787 Dreamliner model highlighted the cancellations.

Oh, it all makes sense there.

subby sounds french

gaspode: I assume this is th exact same bullshiat story as the ones boeing shills put out about airbus, but in reverse?

Times are hard selling planes, but the new ones from these companies will be the dominant planes in the sky for many years to come. Both of them.

b..bu...but...SCAREBUS!

/in before that troll

H31N0US: I don't think the UAE ever had much oil to begin with.

It has huge reserves, around ~100 billion barrels.

RollingThunder: Last I heard, expect that to happen in 2016.

Even if the UAE continued current production levels, they have proven reserves expected to last ~150 years.

Ha! If it is Boeing it ain't going!

Yeah.

Middle Eastern airlines continue to cancel "me too!" orders. Boeing still has well in excess of 800 orders for the 787, which will take years to build.

They still have orders equal to more than 50% of the number of deliveries they are making this year with an enormous backlog of orders.

SQLInjector: SCREW BOEING AND THEIR PUSH TO MAKE EVERYONE A CONTRACT EMPLOYEE.

THIS PRETTY MUCH SUMS IT U
Boeing Picks Up Some Aerospace Engineers Outside Home Depot (new window)

I suppose one good thing about the dreamliner is that it'll help the thousands of Americans, who have to start working overseas to make a living wage, commute

if only there were some new large and efficient commercial airliner that could do this???


/amitrite?!

It's a NIGHTMARE-liner!


MWA-HA-HA!

Boeing, where government contracting oversight meets airline industry.

Where the customer is always number potato.

alzahra: RollingThunder: Last I heard, expect that to happen in 2016.

Even if the UAE continued current production levels, they have proven reserves expected to last ~150 years.

...so you're saying that the UAE is next on our invasion list, then?

/ couldn't resist the question.
// nope. not serious.

starrion: Yeah.

Middle Eastern airlines continue to cancel "me too!" orders. Boeing still has well in excess of 800 orders for the 787, which will take years to build.

They still have orders equal to more than 50% of the number of deliveries they are making this year with an enormous backlog of orders.

Dude, you're supposed to hate Boeing in a Boeing thread, and Airbus becomes Scarebus if it's about them.

I wouldn't say a cancellation of 15 787s (along with orders for 2 other models) constitutes: "customers are falling over themselves to cancel orders".

That's just me though. I'm a fanboy.

/it's a kick-ass plane

I'm looking forward to hearing how it won't cost a dime to bail out Boeing.

The cancellations are from Dubai Aerospace Enterprise and Airbus just had 25 cancellations from them too. There is a much better article on this here (new window), which isn't linked in TFA.

hogans: TOO BIG TO FAIL

Yeah, they only reported $787 million in earnings last quarter and have seen their stock rise 59% for the year so...

Wait, what?

/granted earnings are down vs last year
//but still
///DERP

davidphogan: starrion: Yeah.

Middle Eastern airlines continue to cancel "me too!" orders. Boeing still has well in excess of 800 orders for the 787, which will take years to build.

They still have orders equal to more than 50% of the number of deliveries they are making this year with an enormous backlog of orders.

Dude, you're supposed to hate Boeing in a Boeing thread, and Airbus becomes Scarebus if it's about them.

Not going to do it.

Boeing has a great plane in the 787 and a very strong lineup. They may be outsourcing, but they are building another factory in SC to make the 787. And a lot of the planes are sold overseas. Boeing is one of the few bright stars in our exports portfolio.

We have to ship something to China don't we?

IrateShadow:
In a country where pretty much everything fun is illegal. Sure, they look the other way, but you only have to piss off the wrong person and suddenly that shiat becomes enforceable.

Dubai is actually full of hookers from all over the world. Lots of them have bought apartments there too, so they got that going for them.

ze_foster: I'm looking forward to hearing how it won't cost a dime to bail out Boeing.

Boeing's fine. They've got a couple senators and some congress-critters helping to funnel business their way. They still have 255 orders on track across their fleet for this year.

alzahra: Even if the UAE continued current production levels, they have proven reserves expected to last ~150 years.

They're talking bout Dubai, which is only a small part of the UAE.

From what I heard Abu Dhabi controls the lion's share of the UAE's oil reserves.

davidphogan: starrion: Yeah.

Middle Eastern airlines continue to cancel "me too!" orders. Boeing still has well in excess of 800 orders for the 787, which will take years to build.

They still have orders equal to more than 50% of the number of deliveries they are making this year with an enormous backlog of orders.

Dude, you're supposed to hate Boeing in a Boeing thread, and Airbus becomes Scarebus if it's about them.

"Airbus, more like Scarebus. When are we going to stop their ritualistic killing....blah blah" I can't remember that farker's name, but his/her dislike of Airbus is pretty awesome.

about

/ Damn

As for oil, the UAE has big reserves, but Dubai itself has little. And being that it's got a port, it's not exactly in the middle of the desert...

The Dreamliner was supposed to be entering service two years ago. I remember Boeing promising one customer, Cathay Pacific I think, they'd have their first Dreamliner in time for the Olympis in Beijing. Oh well, maybe they'll have it in time for London in '12.

ze_foster: I'm looking forward to hearing how it won't cost a dime to bail out Boeing.

It'll be a long time until Boeing needs a bail-out. As has already been pointed out in this thread, they're still making money hand over fist.

I'm still ticked this turned out to be vaporware

Wow - the online version of USA Today is actually more annoying than the print version. I had trouble figuring out what was the article and what was embedded links to other articles. And, since it was USA Today, there was no real information contained.

IrateShadow [TotalFark] Quote 2010-08-06 03:47:25 PM

In a country where pretty much everything fun is illegal. Sure, they look the other way, but you only have to piss off the wrong person
and suddenly that shiat becomes enforceable.

>>>

that's why all the politically connected oil wealth aristocrats go there to do everything while preaching radical conservative Islam in their home countries.

plastic airplane, lol

H31N0US: If the article is right and Dubai represents a big part of those cancellations, then I'm sure this cancellation was no real surprise to anyone inside Boeing.

A few years ago The Economist had a feature on Dubai, highlighting how they were building a financial services oriented economy out there in the desert. I was like, yeah, that won't work.

Dubai was built on borrowed money, oil profits, foreign technical expertise and foreign labor. Take away any one of those legs and the stool collapses.

I understand Dubai is broke right now.

No surprise.

JohnCarter: Wow - the online version of USA Today is actually more annoying than the print version. I had trouble figuring out what was the article and what was embedded links to other articles. And, since it was USA Today, there was no real information contained.

That was my first time going to USA Today in years... Are all their 'stories' just an amalgamation of quotes and links to other sources? God that sucked.

starrion: Not going to do it.

Boeing has a great plane in the 787 and a very strong lineup. They may be outsourcing, but they are building another factory in SC to make the 787. And a lot of the planes are sold overseas. Boeing is one of the few bright stars in our exports portfolio.

We have to ship something to China don't we?

I actually agree with you completely, but I prefer to panic about things while on Fark.