Boeing sees achieving pre-MAX grounding production rates 8 years later

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

Ortberg sees path with FAA for returning to full rate 737 production

By Karl Sinclair Jan. 28, 2025, © Leeham News: Boeing’s CEO Kelly Ortberg, now five months into his job, painted an encouraging picture of the company’s path to recovery in an appearance on the financial news network CNBC… Read More

Boeing strike post mortem: Ortberg has work to do

Teamsters contract expires in April 2025. IAM’s contract with Boeing’s defense unit follows in July. SPEEA engineering contract negotiations come up, too. Subscription Required By the Leeham News Team Analysis Nov. 15, 2024, © Leeham News: Boeing CEO… Read More

Ortberg taps Mulally, Conner about Boeing’s recovery

By Scott Hamilton Nov. 8, 2024, © Leeham News: When Kelly Ortberg assumed the chief executive’s slot at the ailing Boeing Co., he knew the company well as an outsider. Ortberg had been CEO of Rockwell Collins, a… Read More

Boeing’s 12-Step process to recovery

Subscription Required By Karl Sinclair Nov. 5, 2024, © Leeham News: When Kelly Ortberg became CEO of The Boeing Co. on Aug. 8, the company was mired in a multitude of crises. The most immediate was the open… Read More

Where and who will be laid off in Boeing reset?

By Scott Hamilton Oct. 14, 2024, © Leeham News: As Boeing prepares to lay off about 10% of its workforce of 170,000 employees, the key question remains unanswered: Who and where will the layoffs come from? Boeing didn’t… Read More

Pontifications: Boeing needs massive reset, and not just with labor

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

Ortberg’s honeymoon with Boeing’s labor unions is over

By Scott Hamilton Analysis Sept. 24, 2024, © Leeham News: That was a short honeymoon. The desire of Kelly Ortberg, the new CEO of The Boeing Co., to reset labor relations with its largest union came to a… Read More

Why the IAM 751 rejected the Boeing contract and what is needed for approval

Subscription Required By the Leeham News Team Analysis Sept. 16, 2024, © Leeham News — The lopsided outcome of last week’s vote by the International Association of Machinists District 751 union members to resoundingly reject Boeing’s four-year contract… Read More

Critical labor contract vote for Boeing, IAM 751 today

By Karl Sinclair and Scott Hamilton Sept. 12, 2024, © Leeham News: The International Association of Machinists (IAM) District 571 votes today on a contract proposal negotiated between union leadership and the management at Boeing (BA). It’s a… Read More