Looking toward the South: As a follow-up to our previous post, Implications of the IAM-Boeing talks on 777X, here is a commentary from The Wall Street Journal about the migration of US industry to the South, were unions… Read More
Posted on November 5, 2013 by Scott Hamilton
Update, Nov. 5, 11am PST: The Seattle Times has this update of the secret talks (well, not secret any more) between the IAM and Boeing over the site location for the 777X. Boeing wants health care and pension… Read More
Posted on November 4, 2013 by Scott Hamilton
Last week we discussed Airbus’ A350-1000 dilemma. The -1000 will be a fine airplane, but we concluded the company needs to go forward with a larger capacity “A350-1100” to match the size of the Boeing 777-9X, but take… Read More
Posted on November 4, 2013 by Scott Hamilton
Airbus, Boeing, GE Aviation, Rolls-Royce
777, 777-300ER, 777-9, 787-10, 787-9, A330-200, A330-300, A350, A350-1000, A350-1100, A350-800, A350-900, Airbus, Boeing, GE Aviation, GEnx, Rolls-Royce, Trent 1000
You read it here first: In June, we reported Boeing planned to take the 737 production rate to 47/mo by 2017 (and to 52 in 2019). Boeing announced on Halloween that it is taking the 737 rate to… Read More
Posted on November 1, 2013 by Scott Hamilton