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Old 8th May 2017, 21:45
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jonkster
 
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Originally Posted by CurtainTwitcher
I still contend that Boeing would be much happier to over, rather than under estimate demand for labour. There is little upside for them to under estimate demand.
Wouldn't one upside would be to make customers confident in making future purchases?

"plan to buy more aircraft - and don't worry, you won't have a struggle to find qualified people to operate them as there will be plenty of them"

rather than:

"plan to buy more aircraft - oh... and there will be a shortage of qualified people to operate them but that is your problem"

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