Boeing: Profits 1st, Safety 2nd? (Part 3)

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Message 2142414 - Posted: 25 Oct 2024, 11:27:18 UTC - in response to Message 2142410.  

Does Airbus have the cash to buy them out of bankruptcy court?
Any sane cartel office in the US or Europe must be obliged to prevent that. The duopoly without Boeing becomes a monopoly. I am convinced that no airline on earth ever want to experience such a "market".

I doubt the Chinese or the Russians can change this situation within the next two decades. Comac in the beginning seems to aim at the Chinese domestic market. Their C919 is too small to compete with Boeing or Airbus in the medium ranges (e.g. transcontinental/transatlantic) (737 Max 9/10, A321neo XL, XLR). Russia's Irkut MC-21 is nowhere to be seen and with Putin's warmongering, I doubt that will ever change.
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Message 2142427 - Posted: 25 Oct 2024, 18:43:05 UTC

Looks like some breakup of Boeing is on the cards.

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Message 2142573 - Posted: 30 Oct 2024, 22:12:57 UTC
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Read into this whatever scenarios...?

Email from Boeing to Ethiopian Airlines Sheds Light on a Tragic Crash


My personal uneducated reading of that is that Boeing refused to give any meaningful or useful answers that could well have avoided the second planefull of Boeing 737 MCAS murders...


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Message 2143715 - Posted: 6 Dec 2024, 3:13:46 UTC

Boeing plea deal tied to fatal crashes rejected
A Boeing plea deal intended to resolve a case related to two fatal crashes of its planes has been rejected by a US judge.
The plane maker agreed with the US government in July to plead guilty to one count of criminal fraud, face independent monitoring, and pay a $243m (£191m) fine.
However, Judge Reed O'Connor struck down the agreement on Thursday, saying it undermined the court and that diversity requirements for hiring the monitor were "contradictory".
Family members of the 346 people killed in the crashes welcomed the ruling, describing the plea deal as a "get-out-of-jail-free card for Boeing".
The Department of Justice said it was reviewing the decision. Boeing did not immediately comment.
In his decision, Judge O'Connor said the government's previous years of overseeing the firm had "failed".
"At this point, the public interest requires the Court to step in," he wrote.
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Message 2143719 - Posted: 6 Dec 2024, 5:30:27 UTC - in response to Message 2143715.  

"At this point, the public interest requires the Court to step in," he wrote.
Judicial activism. That will only fly in the 9th circuit.
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Message 2143850 - Posted: 10 Dec 2024, 8:44:35 UTC

Boeing lays off another 400 WA workers in second round of cuts

That’s in addition to the 2,199 layoff notices Boeing delivered to Washington workers last month, bringing the total number of job cuts in the state to nearly 2,600.

The layoffs are part of a sweeping reduction in force at Boeing, which said in October it planned to trim its workforce by 10% in the coming months. With 170,000 employees, that would equal about 17,000 jobs. The 10% reduction will include attrition and only filling open positions for business-critical priorities, Boeing said.

When announcing the sweeping layoffs in October, CEO Kelly Ortberg told employees the business was in a “difficult position” and had to “make structural changes to ensure we can stay competitive.”
While Boeing lays off thousands of its employees, airlines worldwide urgently wait for an increased production of Boeing 737 Max as the market demands thousands of new single aisle aircraft. Airbus can't increase production as well and has a backlog in orders of at least five years.
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Message 2143892 - Posted: 11 Dec 2024, 17:37:32 UTC - in response to Message 2143850.  

Hire and fire...

And then rehire but ooops... Where goes the essential special knowledge for doing the job safely, and to a good standard??...


Note how the Bosses have no clue of what the real world job is...

Perhaps a safety requirement is that they spend a week truly doing the job directly themselves... Ofcourse, supervised by those they are about to fire...


All in a deadly greedy 'game' of profitably gambling the lives of others?...
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Message 2143901 - Posted: 11 Dec 2024, 20:36:17 UTC - in response to Message 2143892.  

Note how the Bosses have no clue of what the real world job is...
They know. But this company is literally bleeding money. There is no alternative at the moment.

Saving Boeing is the hardest job and biggest opportunity in business

With jet production now constrained by regulators and Boeing bleeding more than $4 billion in cash every three months [...]

[CEO] Ortberg must close the $8 billion acquisition of troubled supplier Spirit AeroSystems [...]
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