Comments by "Scott Franco" (@scottfranco1962) on "How the USA Is Losing the Aviation Industry Battle" video.

Boeing was not fighting a European aircraft company, it was fighting the governments of Europe, and doing pretty well at that. What set airbus ahead is that they embraced modern avionics and cockpit automation at a time when Boeing was slow to modernize. Boeing sat back and claimed that airbus was making aircraft for less trained pilots, but that was exactly what was, in fact, going on. With countries around the world getting into aviation, pilot training was a problem. Reducing pilot workload and making the aircraft easier to fly was the killer app. Boeing, I think, turned this situation around. If it hadn't been for Airbus, boeing would have stayed decades behind. The competition has been good for everyone.
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@teamtoken Boeing used automation to cover a design issue with the airplane due to an engine change. They were trying to save themselves a few bucks in not having to retrain pilots. Because they didn't adequately train the pilots how to handle the system if it went wrong, they didn't know what to do when it happened. This was covered extensively in the WSJ.
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