The Boeing 747 and Airbus A380 [Deep Dive #2]
This week in the Deep Dive bonus segment of the Airways Podcast, Airways Senior Business Analyst Vinay Bhaskara and Columnist Rohan Anand discuss the market for very large airplanes (VLAs), focusing on the Boeing 747-8 and Airbus A380 production cuts (0:30), the killing blow of the Boeing 777-9X (2:15), the declining attractiveness of four-engine aircraft (5:13), whether the A330 has played any role in killing VLAs (9:07), the shifting focus of Boeing and Airbus (12:14), Iran’s VLA orders (15:50), and what’s next for the 747-8i (18:02).
