Mired in a crisis over its best-selling 737 Max plane, Boeing could hand the spotlight over to its rival Airbus at the Paris Air Show.
The new double-aisle plane Boeing is mulling, which it's informally calling the NMA for new mid-market airplane, is bigger than the 737 Max but smaller than the Boeing 787. Boeing expects it could start flying by the middle of the next decade, but Airbus' A321XLR would likely make it to market sooner and could steal some would-be Boeing customers.
"I wouldn't want to be Boeing at the Paris Air Show," said Robert Mann, an airline consultant who previously worked at TWA and American. "That has to be a really humbling. They just have to keep their mouth shut and serve champagne." "You put on a brave face with a couple of twin-aisle orders," said Richard Aboulafia, aviation analyst at Teal Group, regarding Boeing's presence at the air show.
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