Boeing CFO: we want to negotiate; taking steps to preserve cash

By Scott Hamilton Sept. 13, 2024, © Leeham News: Brian West, the CFO of The Boeing Co., said management wants to get back to the negotiating table with its largest union, the IAM 751, to reach a new… Read More

Skeptics about Boeing’s 737 production rate

By Scott Hamilton Feb. 5, 2024, © Leeham News: The Federal Aviation Administration froze Boeing’s production rate of the 737 MAX at its current level. But just what is this rate? Boeing says it’s 38 airplane per month…. Read More

HOTR: Don’t get over-optimistic on COVID-19 vaccine news

By the Leeham News team Nov. 10, 2020, © Leeham News: Pfizer yesterday announced it’s on track to produce a COVID-19 vaccine that appears to be 90% effective in trials. The company is one of the world’s leading… Read More

Pontifications: Boeing’s latest forecast raises more doubt than hope

Oct. 12, 2020, © Leeham News: Every year, like clockwork, when Boeing publishes its 20-year Current Market Outlook, there is always another upward revision in forecast demand for new aircraft. So, when the Chicago-based OEM admits that demand… Read More

HOTR: Boeing bear case: $73bn revenue drop 2020-2025

By the Leeham News Staff Sept. 9, 2020, © Leeham News: Morgan Stanley has a new aerospace analyst, Kristine Liwag, who initiated coverage on a half dozen companies over two days last week. Among them, of course, was… Read More

Analysts react to Boeing’s 2Q charge, cost and RTS announcement

July 19, 2019, © Leeham News: Boeing yesterday announced a $4.9bn charge connected to customer compensation for the 737 MAX grounding. It also announced a $1.7bn additional cost associated with the accounting block and forecast a 4q2019 return… Read More

Pontifications: Time for Odds and Ends

Sept. 24, 2018, © Leeham News: This week we catch up on Odds and Ends. Boeing catching up on 737 Boeing has reversed the number of 737s piling up at Renton Airport and Boeing Field and is starting… Read More

Assessing the 787 production rate increase

Subscription Required Introduction Sept. 18, 2017, © Leeham Co.: Boeing last week announced it will take the production rate of the 787 from 12/mo to 14/mo in 2019. Boeing 787-9. Source: Boeing. The decision to do so was… Read More

Pontifications: No rate increase on Boeing 787 predicted

Jan. 30, 2017, © Leeham Co.: Boeing will decide this year whether to boost 787 production to 14/mo from 12/mo by the end of the decade. I don’t see how this can happen. Neither do several aerospace analysts…. Read More

Boeing cuts 777 production rate again

Dec. 13, 2016: Boeing yesterday announced another production rate cut for the 777 Classic, effective next August. The rate goes to 5/mo. Because of the transition to the 777X, the actual delivery rate will be 3.5/mo. Leeham Co…. Read More