May 23, 2025, (c) Leeham News: The US Department of Justice and Boeing okayed the framework of a Non-Prosecution Agreement to finally resolve the litigation dating to the 2018/19 737 MAX accidents and the Jan. 5, 2024, Alaska… Read More
By Scott Hamilton May 20, 2025, © Leeham News: Boeing will release its fourth annual safety report this month. The first was in 2022. The document is the Chief Aerospace Safety Officer Report (CASO Report). Previous CASO reports… Read More
China has 130 Boeing airplanes that are identified in the Boeing backlog. On last week’s earnings call, officials said China accounts for 10% of its backlog of 6,319 aircraft as of March 31. This means there are about… Read More
By Karl Sinclair March 20, 2025, © Leeham News: Boeing (BA) Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Brian West, was optimistic about Boeing’s path for recovery and appeared unworried about any near-term impacts of tariffs imposed… Read More
Larry Culp, CEO of GE Aerospace. Credit: GE Aerospace. Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton Feb. 24, 2025, © Leeham News: CFM International plans to deliver 2,500 LEAP engines by 2028, enough to power more than 1,000 Airbus A320neos… Read More
Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton Feb. 6, 2025, © Leeham News: Hope and skepticism for Boeing permeated the sidelines of a suppliers’ conference this week in the Seattle area as the big manufacturer struggles to regain footing following… Read More
By Karl Sinclair Feb. 04, 2025, © Leeham News: The Boeing Company (BA) released its 2024 FY Annual Report this week and as expected, it was awash with red ink. On the Jan. 28, 2025, earnings call, CFO… Read More
Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton Jan. 30, 2025, © Leeham News: When Airbus began to record more orders than Boeing in the early 2000 decade, Boeing’s CEO dismissed the shift. Orders didn’t matter, sniffed Phil Condit. Only deliveries… Read More
Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton Oct. 31, 2024, © Leeham News: When Boeing held its first investors day since 2018 in November 2022, then-CEO David Calhoun projected that the production rate for the 737 would be 50/mo sometime… Read More
Subscription Required Now open to all readers. CEO Kelly Ortberg’s “reset” plan is long overdue. But Boeing needs to do better for the IAM members, and the members need to give up on the defined pension plan. Oct…. Read More