{"id":400895,"date":"2021-02-18T10:45:36","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T05:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=400895"},"modified":"2021-02-18T11:15:50","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T05:45:50","slug":"is-boeing-too-late-to-build-a-midrange-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/is-boeing-too-late-to-build-a-midrange-plane\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Boeing too late to build a midrange plane?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing\u2019s ambitions for a midrange plane may be the right idea at the wrong time\u2014again.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the Chicago-based manufacturer started conversations with customers about building such a jet with a single-aisle cabin. Then, during the fourth-quarter earnings presentation in late January, Chief Executive David Calhoun all but confirmed that the company\u2019s next jet would indeed address the \u201cmiddle of the market&#8221; between long international flights and short-haul domestic ones.<\/p>\n<p>This appears to end speculation that Boeing could prioritize a replacement for the troubled 737 MAX, which is now flying again. It is a good call not to undermine MAX sales with talk of a substitute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing\u2019s ambitions for a midrange plane may be the right idea at the wrong time\u2014again. Last year, the Chicago-based manufacturer started conversations with customers about building such a jet with a single-aisle cabin. Then, during the fourth-quarter earnings presentation in late January, Chief Executive David Calhoun all but confirmed that the company\u2019s next jet would indeed address the \u201cmiddle of the market&#8221; between long international flights and short-haul domestic ones. This appears to end speculation that Boeing could prioritize a replacement for the troubled 737 MAX, which is now flying again. It is a good call not to undermine MAX [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}