Originally Posted by SLO_Town
I'm not throwing stones at you, OP, but Boeing claiming they lost $40M on every 747 they made since 2016? That's hilarious. That loss is all accounting trickery, wires and mirrors, shifting cost from one area to another. Sticking each 747 with a $40M hit is probably nothing more than Boeing attempting to paint the 737 MAX as a profit generator.
Scott
I don't doubt that they lost money since each one sold when sales are low is going to bring less profit. Maybe it wasn't a negative cash flow, but simply that they had to sell them for way less money than they could have sold them for (ie, "MSRP" vs actual sale price).
Regardless, there's a reason why Boeing or any other company discontinues producing a product ... it's not a good "money maker".