AIRBUS BOEING
AIRBUS/ BOEING ABSTRACT The airline industry is a competitive environment in which a diversified array of stakeholders constantly strives to gain significant shares of the market. Among them are Boeing and Airbus, which are two aircraft manufacturers engaged in a fierce and long-standing rivalry. Over the years, this rivalry as produced many different products built at a record pace in which safety and money may be cause for concern. The purpose of this paper is to briefly examine the issues of safety within the news, major role players within the industry, the EU-US Trade agreement and the major concern pertaining to subsidies, and provide a set of options to resolve them.
NEWSWORTHY ISSUES In 2014, there were a total of 111 reported plane crashes. According to the Bureau of Aircraft Accident Archives, (BAAA), it is one of the lowest numbers in the past 80 years. However, the casualties reported in these crashes are estimated to approximately 1,320. It is one of the highest death rates in the past 10 years (Yan, H. & Cripps, K.,2014).
Out of the four high profile crashes in 2014, two of the planes were Boeing and one of them was by Airbus. The two Malaysian Airlines flights MH 370 and MH 17 were the Boeing 777-200ER and the Air Asia flight QZ8501 was the Airbus A320 (Eddy, M., Bilefsky, D. & Clark, N., 2015). The most recent crash in March 2015 involved an Airbus A320 which belonged to Germanwings airline.
The plane crashes not only put manufacturers under the microscope but they also affect the aviation industry as whole. The question lies in how safe air travel actually is? In these 4 crashes, no reported engine or aircraft failures were reported. For the lost plane, MH370, one of the theories was that it was hijacked and crashed. Unfortunately, there are a lot of rumors but none confirmed as the plane is yet to be found. For MH17, it was shot down by pro-Russian rebels over the Ukraine-Russia border. QZ8501 crashed into the Java Sea due to bad
NEWSWORTHY ISSUES In 2014, there were a total of 111 reported plane crashes. According to the Bureau of Aircraft Accident Archives, (BAAA), it is one of the lowest numbers in the past 80 years. However, the casualties reported in these crashes are estimated to approximately 1,320. It is one of the highest death rates in the past 10 years (Yan, H. & Cripps, K.,2014).
Out of the four high profile crashes in 2014, two of the planes were Boeing and one of them was by Airbus. The two Malaysian Airlines flights MH 370 and MH 17 were the Boeing 777-200ER and the Air Asia flight QZ8501 was the Airbus A320 (Eddy, M., Bilefsky, D. & Clark, N., 2015). The most recent crash in March 2015 involved an Airbus A320 which belonged to Germanwings airline.
The plane crashes not only put manufacturers under the microscope but they also affect the aviation industry as whole. The question lies in how safe air travel actually is? In these 4 crashes, no reported engine or aircraft failures were reported. For the lost plane, MH370, one of the theories was that it was hijacked and crashed. Unfortunately, there are a lot of rumors but none confirmed as the plane is yet to be found. For MH17, it was shot down by pro-Russian rebels over the Ukraine-Russia border. QZ8501 crashed into the Java Sea due to bad
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