Chris Bryant, Columnist

Airbus Is Building Gliders While Boeing Floats On Cash

This so-called duopoly is looking very one-sided.

April 27, 2018 at 8:47 AM UTC

Chris Bryant is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering industrial companies in Europe. Previously, he was a reporter for the Financial Times.

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What’s the difference between Boeing Co. and Airbus SE? One builds commercial aircraft, the other makes "gliders" (a pejorative term for passenger jets without engines.)

Airbus shipped just 121 aircraft during the first quarter, the least since 2011, notes Bloomberg News’s Benjamin Katz this morning. That’s also one third fewer than Boeing managed in the same period.