Originally Posted by
opus99
I think it will mainly come down to cost. I think BA have shown they can make virtually any wide body very profitable for them. Given the -8 needs some orders, won’t be shocked if Boeing offers it to them at a crazy discount just to get that order book up and of course instill confidence
why would boeing care if everybody orders the 777-9 and nobody wants the 777-8 ... it's the same production line, so there's no reason for them to offer "crazy discount" ?
just like the A330neo-800 only has 10 orders (according to wikipedia) ... but the A330neo-900 has 262 orders !