Originally Posted by
jugofpropwash
The government bailed out the car companies, I imagine they'd be just as quick to bail out Boeing.
But the car companies that came out of that didn't look much like they did pre-bankruptcy, and the car companies outstanding liabilities were way less than $100 billion.
The resultant Boeing Commercial would be a wide body aircraft company with nothing on offer smaller than the 787. Tens of thousands of jobs would be permanently lost, and the complete loss of narrow body income would cripple Boeing's ability to finance any future new aircraft development (e.g. NMA or a 737 replacement). Spirit (makes the 737 fuselage) would probably go under, as well as a number of other Boeing suppliers. Airbus would have an effective monopoly of the largest portion of the aircraft market.
The ramifications would last for at least a decade, probably longer.