Boeing signals more orders before setting up facility in India
'The business case in order to have final assembly in any region has to be far larger than what the Indian market is. It requires many more airplanes than are being bought in India today,' Boeing India and South Asia president Salil Gupte told Reuters.
'We'll have to see how it evolves as the markets in India and around India go. In the meantime, it is all about building stepwise capability to get up to that point,' Gupte said in an interview on the sidelines of the Aero India show in the city of Bengaluru.
Boeing said in an emailed statement it has a 'strong commitment' to India's aerospace sector. The company has in the past offered to assemble defense aircraft, such as its F/A-18 jets, in India.
But the volume required for final assembly of commercial airplanes is far greater than that required for defense, and a viable business case would require a large regional market, the company added.
Early last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India will not have to wait too long for a Boeing that is designed and manufactured in the subcontinent.
The country's civil aviation minister told Reuters in 2023 that the time had come for Boeing and Airbus to make civil aircraft in India.
'As the market evolves, we continue to assess the feasibility of co-development and co-production opportunities when the time is right, ensuring we have a robust ecosystem to support them,' Boeing added on Monday.
Indian airlines, including Tata's Air India and IndiGo , have about 1,800 aircraft on order with global planemakers and are scheduled to take delivery of 130 jets this year, according to data from UK-based Cirium Ascend.
Last week, Boeing said it expects Indian and South Asian airlines will add 2,835 commercial aircraft to their fleet over the next 20 years, a four-fold increase over current levels.
Gupte said final assembly was less than 10% of the value proposition of an plane, adding that the 'real money' is in everything else that is being done to get up to that stage.
Boeing sources products and services worth $1.25 billion from India annually from a network of more than 300 suppliers, according to its website. The company employs about 7,000 people in the country.
The company's joint venture with India's Tata Group produces AH-64 Apache helicopter fuselages and 737 aircraft vertical fin structures for customers worldwide.
Gupte said the Indian government needs to provide incentives to suppliers to bring down the cost of capital in India to help expand the aerospace supply chain.
'We had very candid conversations (with the civil aviation ministry) and they are willing to take those conversations forward' with other departments, he said. (Reporting by Abhijith Ganapavaram; Editing by Susan Fenton and Jan Harvey) Spirit AeroSystems expects quarterly revenue above estimates on Boeing production restart Feb 10 (Reuters) - Spirit AeroSystems said on Monday it expects to post a higher-than-expected quarterly revenue, driven by restarted production at the aerospace supplier's biggest customer, Boeing.
Shares of the company rose about 1% in premarket trading.
Spirit's deliveries increased about 15% in the fourth quarter, led by higher Boeing 737 and Airbus A320 shipsets. A shipset refers to sets of structural fuselage components produced or delivered for one aircraft.
Boeing last month said it was making progress on increasing plane production after a crippling strike that shuttered production of most of its jets ended in November.
Spirit expects revenues of $1.66 billion in the quarter ended on Dec. 31, 2024, surpassing analysts' average estimates of $1.61 billion.
The Wichita, Kansas-based company, however, expects to report a loss of $413 million, owing in part to high labour and raw material costs as the aerospace supply chain remains strained. It had posted a profit of $291 million a year ago.
The company also reiterated that its management expects to make a going-concern disclosure in its annual filing. In November, it warned there was 'substantial doubt' about the company's ability to continue as a going concern.
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