Originally Posted by
cattletruck
I vividly recall during it's development that Boeing were saying Airbus got their market research all wrong. I guess they've been vindicated.
Not sure on that. Somewhere recently (maybe earlier on this thread) I've seen numbers that show the Airbus estimates were actually about the number they sold - problem is that they messed up the development/production so much that they needed to sell twice that number to get the money back.
Boeing then stuffed up 787 development/production too, but there was enough of a market there to recover it.
Both companies will have learned from the experience - notably Airbus took the A350 right back to the drawing board based on market research, and then seem to have developed and produced it very quietly and
uneventfully, and it sells. 777X may well go the same way for Boeing - certainly seems much less eventful than the 787 so far.