Airliner World’s Gordon Smith sat down with Randy Tinseth, vice president of marketing at Boeing Commercial Airplanes for a wide-ranging discussion covering everything from the MAX to turboprops.
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Even the most level-headed of analysts will tell you that no company in the aviation sector is going to come out of COVID-19 particularly well, if indeed they make it out at all. Yet long before most of us had even heard of Wuhan, let alone the coronavirus, there was one big player whose name was already synonymous with crisis and catastrophe.