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by spcebar 727 days ago
The three companies you mentioned aren't in commercial aviation, which has been the bulk of discourse about the problems concerning Boeing. There is no other U.S. company in competition with Boeing for commercial aviation. And based on how Boeing has been behaving, it seems like they already feel no incentive to be good.
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>commercial aviation, which has been the bulk of discourse about the problems concerning Boeing.

Then you haven't been paying attention. Most of their problems have been in the military aviation sector, between problems and failures in the KC-46 Pegasus, V-2 Osprey, Air Force One version 2, F-15EX, and F/A-18 Super Hornet programmes among others.

Their failures in civilian aviation and space are all intrinsically linked with their military failures all likely having common causes, it's plaguing their entire company from top to bottom across all their markets.

The KC-46 is a 767; AF1 is a 747. Lockheed and Grumman don't compete with those sorts of aircraft; Boeing at the very least holds a monopoly on US-made large airliners.