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How Airbus Surpassed Boeing To Become The World’s Top Plane Maker

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Airbus and Boeing have been competing head to head for decades as the world’s largest commercial airplane makers. The European-based Airbus entered the market 56 years after its rival. And today, more than three-quarters of the world’s commercial aircraft is made up of Airbus and Boeing planes.

Comac will not go anywhere as it is stolen IP

— @margdrag

The Boeing 737 family and Airbus 320 family are the companies best-selling aircraft and have been a crucial segment of competition. Over the last few years, Airbus has pulled ahead of Boeing when it comes to net profits, orders, deliveries and backlog. Experts say its A321neo narrow-body aircraft is propelling the company ahead of Boeing, which has been dealing with crisis after crisis the last several years. CNBC explores how Airbus came to be the biggest commercial plane manufacturer and whether it can stay on top.

CNBC explores how Airbus came to be the biggest commercial plane manufacturer and whether it can stay on top.

Without A380 airbus would be further ahead.

— @knoll9812

Chapters:

0:00 Introduction

Boeing is going down by itself. The corrupting force of greed, the triumph of economic liberalism, is pulling them to the ground, quite literally.

— @mancal5829

2:20 Wide-body era

4:13 The workhorse

In less than 10 years, Boeing will surpass airbus again. They will come out with better and more fuel. Efficient long range jets US technology has surpassed the EU. The EU is not doing very good and the industrial arena.

— @peredavi

7:37 The Superjumbo

9:55 Ramping up production

Boeing are typical of US corporate greed and that's what caused Airbus to become top plane maker, along with the fact that the Europeans actually receive an education not centred around religion!

— @plld6969

11:15 The hinge factor

15:02 Can Airbus stay on top?

As a Canadian, I'm glad that Boeing is going down. They tried to fraudulously claimed that Bombardier of price dumping (C-Series - now Airbus A220). Those t u rds attacked Canada before Trump - and for that - Boeing can go bankrupt for all I care.

— @JakeIsotopes

Produced and Edited by: Erin Black

Animations by: Andrea Schmitz

Kinda tiptoeing around the fact that the MD merger and their disregard of safety, the prop dreamliner and replacing enineers with white collar beancounters cost Boeing trust and customers. A textbook guide on how to destroy a company by generating short term revenue and artificially high stock prices. The FAA turned a blind eye letting Boeing basically certify their own planes no questions asked which culminated in hundreds of deaths.
If it wasn't for the too big to fail attitude and taxpayer bailouts, Boeing would be gone for good.
Al Jazeera did a good piece on the decline of standards at Boeing a good 11 years ago named "The Boeing 787: Broken Dreams", its up here on YT and worth watching. Predates MCAS and door problems but almost prophetically predicts that something dangerous is going on.
CNBC is treading too lightly here, if it wasn't Boeing the company would have been shut down already.

— @ThrobbingWood

Senior Director of Video: Jeniece Pettitt

Additional Camera: Natalie Rice

As someone who actively looks for only airbus operated flights id say my main reason and answer to the title would be “not falling down as much”

— @a4Jonatico

Editorial Support: Leslie Josephs

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Lol 777x more like 7 years overdue

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this is stupid with out america europe won't exist lol putin willbe in paris in weeks and also airbus has americain investors too

— @SirSir-l9l

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The way Boeing handled the Bombardier incident was arrogant, egotistical and the reason why the C series, now called the Airbus A220 was sold to Aibus for $1. Absolute stupidity

— @JJ-lp1mj

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The A380 ruined flying for me. It was such a fantastic experience, exactly what flying should be. Now when I step on a small plane I detest it. Uncomfortable, crowded, rattly and did I mention uncomfortable?

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Boeing was ruined by MD merger. MD management took control of Boeing and milked the company instead of focusing on safety and product developments.

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Airbus does not design planes that crash themselves.

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By building planes that don't fly into the ground?

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How Airbus Surpassed Boeing To Become The World’s Top Plane Maker

Boeing's former leadership is squarely at fault. Greed-first a$$holes like Dave Calhoun and self-serving cowards at the IAMAW union should be in prison. At last, Kelly Ortberg has Boeing on the comeback trail, which means Euro dominance was temporary, and equilibrium will ultimately be restored. Well, until Embraer figures out how to build wide bodies...

— @badmojamma

More User Perspectives

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Boeing has the capacity to be great again. But right now it’s Chevy vs Audi

@Wargasm54
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12:10 Calling Boeing's massmurder 737 max and greedy managment a "Challenge" is criminal

@JonessJack
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Wait a minute, what is that surname, Ron??

@94lanni
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Airbus flew the US astronauts to the moon. Most of the Artemis spacecraft was build by Airbus Aerospace 😂👍

@aleksandarm4489
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What's the use of widebodies when point to point is taking over hub and spoke. A 321XLR is the one to watch. B777 X ? A 380 was a struggle. Both great planes.

@Changehurts
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By making doors that do not open mid-flight? By not making a plane that stalls and cannot giveback control to the pilots? ... you tell me!

@michalwiktorow2188
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They capitalized on the regulations changing. You were not allowed to pass a certain distance from a safe airport with 2 engines, thats why the 3 engine planes existed

@massimo4683
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Actually engineering and building decent planes.

@dwwolf4636
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As a user of long haul flights I'm scared to get on a boeing plane.

@MrPDawes
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Airbus is simply better at everything they do, full stop

@greensam7074
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CNBC should be smarter & more nuanced than "tariff bad, make more expensive". Elementary understanding

@JustinSee11
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American products are riddled with backdoors.

@man-who-sold-the-world
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Airbus anyway cannot compete with Boeing because boeing has more than 75 years of experience in plane making. Airbus may started in 2000, and have 25 years experience. ?????

@josephoswaldsaldanha4538
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simple, boeing planes crash....a lot...due to negligence...and pretend they were not their faults...

@yuhaoli4259
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Rare Europe W, I'll take it though

@brummi9869
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layoff to cut cost , disregard to safety ,lack of engineering innovation,huge payoff to higher management..are signs of rotten company.

@digitalfortress-v4u1x
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It’s not that Airbus is better - when an airline is growing they’ll buy any aircraft they can get that fits their demands. They don’t care who made it. Boeing simply can’t produce enough aircraft for the whole world

@Aavabot
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18:44 Dave Calhoun was the President and CEO of Boeing from January 2020 to August 2024. Never the CEO of Airbus.

@milojadez
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Sh*t this is totally faking. Nothing new They paid to set up everything to beat Boeing just like they faked climate change.

@thomaspham1506
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My bet is on Mitsubishi and Honda, even though Boeing knows that the Japanese will turn Boeing into the next Fokker for a reason why SpaceJet is never given the green light only to form the Mitsubishi monopoly.

@Embargoman
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South Korea will be the next place to built if the 737 MAX crashes in South Korea and probably merge with KAI to formed Airbus Korea as for the KF 21 becomes part of the Airbus Defense family.

@Embargoman
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The A320 became equivalent to the Toyota Corolla of the commercial aviation industry.

@Embargoman
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5:27 Bro better change his last name 😮

@ChaosLordMomo
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Boing needs to wake up

@pictureinpicture2668
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The 321 is the best

@pictureinpicture2668
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@redneckincanada
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''better buy from Toulouse if you don't want to lose''

@ginborgho
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Airbus are the kings now. Boeing destroyed themselves.

@gearoftones8585
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Congratulations Airbus on not crashing (as much). You really do understand the principles of FLIGHT!

@rollvideo
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It is clear what happens when the maximization of profits under market capitalism becomes the state’s primary objective. This was the criticism Noam Chomsky consistently warned against, yet the world is ultimately being run by corporations like Boeing. That is the root cause of today’s global crisis.

"Airbus have EASA write the rules for them to push innovation, Boeing has lobbyists stop the FAA from forcing them to innovate on old designs."@soffici1

@ɗjango
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By stealing the cSeries from Bombardier. Boeing did it to themselves by attacking Bombardier. Just a string of bad Karma.

@JulianDambek
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Boeing has been dealing with 3 problems for decades. 1. Having to compete with a government subsidized corporation, Airbus 2. Being the subject of American media which is observably Anti-American. 3. And the worst problem, having a management team that is avaricious to the extent of seriously damaging the company they are supposed to be managing.

@shovelmasterfunk6709
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Boeing is leading in both deliveries and orders in 2026. Don't believe all the chinese propaganda against Boeing.

@kevins8575
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Airbus A380 is so much better than 747. Airbus is just superior overall. End of.

@GT3.01