Does Boeing have an answer to the new Airbus A380?

Question

Most companies usually have a rival product out on the heals of their competitors' new products.

Answer 1

Yeah they do, and its not the Boeing 787- that aircraft is in a different class, its a long- haul twin( Airbus's answer is the A350). Boeing answer to the A380 is the smaller 747-8 which is a long- haul quad. So far the 747-8 has only 20 orders for commercial airline use from only one customer, Lufthansa.

Answer 2

Actually, the A380 is Airbus' answer to the Boeing 747, more specifically, to the 747-400 (744). There is really not much of a market for anything larger than a 747, though it will take a few years before the A380's effect on commercial service is truly realized. In order for the A380 to prove valuable, each flight must be full and it must take advantage of its range capablilites. An A380 with a 3/4 pax load does not pay for the flight. It will be quite some time before we know if the A380 can come out on the high end of the risk-rewared situation it is in. The 747 on the other hand is a proven asset to commercial service, especially couriers.

Answer 3

It relies upon what you're doing. The A320 sequence of plane, of which the A319 is a member, competes with the Boeing 737. if so the A320 has a decrease accident value and is a greater moderen plane, yet there is not very lots to % between a 737-800 (a present day variation) and the A319. From the piloting attitude the A319 electronics are fairly distinctive and it makes use of a facet stick controller which some like and others do not. The 767-3 hundred competes with the Airbus A300. the two are older plane, sales area have very good reliability documents. the two gets replaced interior of here few years via the 787 and A350. there is distinctive disinformation in those solutions. Airbus is fairly backed via the eu Union, the united kingdom at the instant loaned funds to EADS for the A350 progression. yet Boeing is backed in a roundabout way via tax breaks and government contracts. the two aspects have had a shouting tournament for some years, if the two area substitute into needless to say in the stunning or incorrect they had have have been given the worldwide courts to rule. yet fairly they only gasoline rhetoric. Airbus does not use technologies kindly proficient via a beneficiant US to the ineffective Europeans. the U. S. has radar and jet engines by way of fact the British gave them to the U. S. throughout WWII to help combat the axis forces. Rolls Royce has been producing jet engines by way of fact the 40's and the avionics for the airbus plane are often eu. Given the call of an A319 or B767 i could actual circulate with the A319. yet then I in many cases fly Jet Blue, nonetheless I actual have 60,000 United air miles.

Answer 4

If you mean a large aircraft to compete, sure. The 747, except it's been around for over 30 years, I guess the A380 is really the reponse to the 747.

The new Boeing plane, the 787 is a different approach entirely. Instead of just going bigger they've gone more efficient. With extensive composite construction the plane lighter and smoother than traditional aircraft, producing quite a significant fuel savings.

With the 747 already really big, there's no point in making a new plane to compete with the A380. And the new 747-8 is easily just as luxurious as the Airbus.

Answer 5

Yes, and their answer is: "Who cares?"

Boeing has put their design money into more efficient twins with long ranges. The 787, the 777, the 767-300ER, etc. They will be the bigger future of airline travel, since the need to have multiple flights going to destinations with always outweight the need to get a ton of people there all at once.

The A380, while innovative and a neat airplane, will not be used as a strict passenger airplane for long. It will be an amazing cargo plane, and since airlines can make more money hauling cargo than people, many planes will get a 50/50 conversion. The back half of the airplane will be outfitted to carry cargo, and the front half, passengers. Then it's efficiency and weight loading will be correctly utilized.

Northwest Airlines does this with MANY of their 747s.

In answer to your original question, Boeing is intorducing a bigger 747, but it will not differ dramatically from the 747-400.

Answer 6

Boeing and Airbus doesnt really have direct competitions. Though their products come close to being the same class, there will always be some differences.

The A380 is 4 engined double decker, the competing Boeing will be the B747-8

Answer 7

there is no clear answer. It comes down to the perceived future of the airline industry. Airbus think the answer to congested airports is to have larger planes with more passengers to relieve landing congestion,Boeing believe that smaller aircraft going to many airports is the answer. Boeings' answer is to have international airports all over the place and take people to exactly where they want to be ,this reduces loads on major airports and reduces feeder flights. Airbus believe larger aircraft will reduce the load on major airport movements and keep airfares down with larger passenger numbers. Who has got it right? Both have bet their entire fiscal future on their perception of air transport in the future. There are arguements for both , time will tell which one got it right.

Answer 8

yes they do, boeing many makes short- medium haul airplanes so there new aircraft is the 787, airbus likes to make large long haul airplanes. The answer to your question if boeing is going to make a large aircraft like the a380 that is a no.

Answer 9

Thy do have a larger 747 on the drawing boards, but they don't think there is enough of a market for it and they believe the A380 wont be the big money maker everyone thinks it will be.

Answer 10

Not exactly... the 787 Dreamliner is their next effort. It's a twin engine which is much smaller than the A380.