EADS CEO Skeptical About 737 Successor

By Jens Flottau jens@flottau.com.
MUNICH.

EADS CEO Louis Gallois is skeptical about the merits of Boeing’s proposed all-new 737 successor; in his view, the fully electric architecture does not add much value for a short-haul aircraft.

“We have seen the huge difficulties Boeing has had with this on the 787,” he said at an annual EADS media briefing in Munich. Gallois also questions the degree to which Boeing ...

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