Emirates urges 777X be built in US: Wall Street Journal
Emirates Airlines has urged Boeing to build the 777X and its components in the US to avoid the issues that bedeviled the 787, according to The Wall Street Journal. (Subscription required.) “Tim Clark,...
View ArticleLoyalty is a one-way street at Boeing
Boeing’s move to shop around the 777X assembly site, while telegraphed and certainly expected, is another example of the shifting loyalties at Boeing that have been more than a decade in the making....
View ArticleDoes 777X assembly site matter to airlines? Yes, up to a point; and a...
As Boeing awaits responses to its Requests for Proposals from 15 sites around the US and possibly Japan, Washington State officials, company employees and other stakeholders fret that Boeing will...
View ArticleThe deeper, longer term implications of IAM’s Boeing contract vote January 3
There are deeper, longer term implications for the January 3 vote by IAM 751 members on the revised contract proposal from Boeing than have been discussed in the public domain. Contract extension to...
View ArticleCharleston plant continues to give Boeing headaches for 787
Boeing is adding hundreds of workers to its Charleston (SC) 787 plant top deal with continued quality problems, reports The Wall Street Journal. The details in the article are at odds with statements...
View ArticleOdds and Ends: A boost for the A330? Problems continue at Boeing Charleston
A boost for the A330? Aviation Week reports Airbus is offering China an A330 completion center in return for an order for 200 A330s. At the current production rate of 10/mo over the Airbus production...
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Odds and Ends: Boeing’s bonus to Charleston workers; E-Jet E2 EIS; IAM and...
Boeing’s bonus to Charleston workers: We’ve ignored the continuing workmanship stories of Boeing’s Charleston plant on the 787 for the past months as Norwegian Air Shuttle, LOT and Air India continue...
View ArticleAlenia, traveled work contine to plague 787: Everett Herald
At a time when Boeing continues to assure Wall Street that all is well with the 787 program, industrial partner Alenia of Italy and traveled work from Boeing South Carolina continue to plague the...
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Muilenburg’s challenges as Boeing CEO
Subscription Required. Now open to all readers Introduction Jan. 27, 2015: Dennis Muilenburg has been the No. 2 at The Boeing Co. for a little more than a year. He was named vice chairman, president...
View Article“7M7” MOM means opportunities all around US
The prospect that Boeing may launch the so-called Middle of the Market (MOM) airplane seems to be gaining ground. We’ve reported previously that our Market Intelligence suggests the MOM would be...
View ArticleCharleston plant continues to give Boeing headaches for 787
Boeing is adding hundreds of workers to its Charleston (SC) 787 plant top deal with continued quality problems, reports The Wall Street Journal. The details in the article are at odds with statements...
View ArticleOdds and Ends: A boost for the A330? Problems continue at Boeing Charleston
A boost for the A330? Aviation Week reports Airbus is offering China an A330 completion center in return for an order for 200 A330s. At the current production rate of 10/mo over the Airbus production...
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Odds and Ends: Boeing’s bonus to Charleston workers; E-Jet E2 EIS; IAM and...
Boeing’s bonus to Charleston workers: We’ve ignored the continuing workmanship stories of Boeing’s Charleston plant on the 787 for the past months as Norwegian Air Shuttle, LOT and Air India continue...
View ArticleAlenia, traveled work contine to plague 787: Everett Herald
At a time when Boeing continues to assure Wall Street that all is well with the 787 program, industrial partner Alenia of Italy and traveled work from Boeing South Carolina continue to plague the...
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Muilenburg’s challenges as Boeing CEO
Subscription Required. Now open to all readers Introduction Jan. 27, 2015: Dennis Muilenburg has been the No. 2 at The Boeing Co. for a little more than a year. He was named vice chairman, president...
View Article“7M7” MOM means opportunities all around US
The prospect that Boeing may launch the so-called Middle of the Market (MOM) airplane seems to be gaining ground. We’ve reported previously that our Market Intelligence suggests the MOM would be...
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Long, bitter history precedes union vote at Boeing Charleston today
Feb. 15, 2017, © Leeham Co.: Boeing’s touch-labor workers at its 787 assembly plant in North Charleston (SC) will vote today on whether to become represented by the International Association of...
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IAM loses union vote at Boeing SC
Update: IAM got thumped: 75% to 25% for unionization, 2,097 to 731. Kawabunga! Feb. 15, 2017: The International Association of Machinists lost its effort to unionize Boeing’s Charleston (SC) 787...
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Huge win for Boeing in union vote
Feb. 15, 2017, (c) Leeham Co.: It wasn’t even close: 74% percent of the Boeing hourly touch-labor workers at the 787 plant in North Charleston (SC) voted against the International Association of...
View ArticleWith 787 FAL closing and 747 production ending, what does Boeing do with...
Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton and Bryan Corliss Introduction Oct. 1, 2020, © Leeham News: Boeing is expected to announce as early as today that it will consolidate the 787 final assembly...
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