Originally Posted by
befree
Boeing and airbus are not going to be helpful to ryanair over the next 7 years if ryanair is undermining their market. Going with china is a massive risk.
All due respect, but that's nonsense. Airbus are not going to be helpful to RYR this time round anyway - John Leahy has already made that clear, based on the extent to which Ryanair burnt their Airbus bridges immediately prior to the big 737 order. I'm no great fan of Ryanair business practices, but on this occasion I'd do exactly as they're doing. Boeing is not going to offer keen pricing if they feel they're the only game in town, and (unlike Airbus) the Chinese really need a high-profile Western customer for the C919 and will likely be prepared to drop their prices pretty jaw-droppingly to win one.
It would be a risk to actually go with an unproven Chinese aircraft (which Ryanair is far from doing) and that's why any deal, if it actually happened (which is a year or two away at best) would be structured to take all the new-aircraft reliability risk away from Ryanair.
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