Boeing and Airbus: Competition Analysis

History & Company Overview

In order to In order to understand the competition between Boeing and Airbus today, it is crucial to understand their histories.

Boeing

of commercial jetliner, military aircraft and the nation’s largest NASA contractor. Boeing has five divisions: Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA), the civil and commercial airliner division; Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS), the military and space division; Boeing Capital Corporation, a global provider of financing solutions; the Shared Services Group, which provides a broad range of services to Boeing worldwide; and Boeing Engineering, Operations & Technology, which helps develop, acquire, apply and protect innovative technologies and processes. Among the five divisions, BCA and BDS are the primary business divisions of Boeing, whereas the remaining three divisions are characterized as the supporting units to its two primary divisions http://www.airbus.com/aircraftfamilies/passengeraircraft/a320family/ http://www.airbus.com/aircraftfamilies/passengeraircraft/a320family/ (The Boeing Company, 2014).

William E. Boeing founded Boeing on July 15, 1916 under the name Pacific Aero Products Company (The Boeing Company, 2014). The first “all-Boeing” designed twin-float seaplane plane was Model C, which also the foundation of the company (The Boeing Company, 2014). Boeing’s first commercial aircraft was Model 40A, which were came in 1927 and used to delivery mail for U.S. Postal Services (The Boeing Company, 2014). Airplane development progressed slowly until World War I (Cook, 2008). And World War II was the revolution period of aviation technology (Rogers, 2006). 707 were Boeing’s first commercial jet airline, which came in service on Dec. 20, 1957. (The Boeing Com...

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.... Orders and Deliveries: Current Year Deliveries Through March 2014. Retrieved April 3, 2014, from http://active.boeing.com/commercial/orders/index.cfm

The Boeing Company (2014, February 28). Orders and Deliveries: Current Year Deliveries Through March 2014. Retrieved April 3, 2014, from http://active.boeing.com/commercial/orders/index.cfm?content=displaystandardreport.cfm&optReportType=CurYrDelv

The Boeing Company (2014). Orders and Deliveries: Orders through March 31, 2014. Retrieved April 3, 2014, from http://active.boeing.com/commercial/orders/index.cfm?content=displaystandardreport.cfm&pageid=m25065&RequestTimeout=20000

The Boeing Company (2014). Orders and Deliveries: Orders through March 31, 2014. Retrieved April 3, 2014, from http://active.boeing.com/commercial/orders/index.cfm?content=displaystandardreport.cfm&pageid=m25065&RequestTimeout=20000