Originally Posted by
tdracer
Which is what I posted in response to you several pages back - Boeing is currently cash flow positive on the 787 to the tune of roughly $25 million per aircraft - and that number is getting better with nearly every delivery.
That's not quite an accurate representation. While they may be "cash positive" on current work, in terms of labour, components, current assembly hall costs, etc, there is the most enormous debt for the R&D, prototype production, and all the money borrowed to fund the production of earlier aircraft that didn't get delivered or any revenue for a long time. That has to be paid back from current production revenue. It's also difficult to know correctly how cash positive each aircraft is because the price each carrier has paid for each is commercially very confidential. But the USD 25m is still very much being taken up by the cost of all the borrowing used to fund those past costs. I don't think the shareholders have seen anything yet, and in fact Boeing has extended the production run over which they are absorbing these past expenses.