Originally Posted by
donpizmeov
The 777 is more limited on ULR flights than a 744. The 77X costs close to half a billion dollars a piece, a wee bit more than a 380. Airlines do not seem keen to drop this amount of coin on a new aeroplane as financing that amount of debt makes getting a bonus for huge profit hard to achieve.
Smaller aeroplanes are cheaper to purchase, cheaper to operate and easier to manage when times are hard.
Unless the purchase price of the 380 and 77X are reduced substantially, I doubt and large orders are going to be made soon.
Boeing and its fanboys may not agree, but B777X is heavily subsidized ($8.2B) by Washington State and sales will be further subsidized by US tax payers thru EXIM bank.
B77W was selling for $130M, so B777X wouldn't be more than $160M.
Even with that kind of discount they didn't sell more than 300 copies, half of which is from Emirates. So this $12B program is a perfect example of All eggs in one basket.
B787 sales is not super hot either, it should be selling 100 copies every year.