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Muilenburg’s challenges as Boeing CEO
Subscription Required. Now open to all readers Introduction Jan. 27, 2015: Dennis Muilenburg has been the No. 2 at The Boeing Co. for a little more than a year. He was named vice chairman, president and COO in… Read More
Oct. 28, 2009: five years ago today, Boeing announced 787 Line 2 goes to Charleston; then, now and the future
This is about eight pages when printed. It was five years ago today that Boeing announced it would locate the second assembly line for the 787 in Charleston (SC). The decision was expected and, some say, had actually… Read More
Odds and Ends: No to 757 MAX; Fallout from Boeing job transfer; 8,000th 737; Fire sale pricing on 777LR
No to 757 MAX: Steve Wilhelm of the Puget Sound Business Journal writes that Boeing has no plans to build a 757 MAX. This refutes the Motley Fool article we linked Tuesday. Then yesterday a different Fool write… Read More
Boeing slammed for moving jobs to Southern California, WA state for naivete
Boeing took two hits over the weekend from Seattle Times columnists for the announcement that 1,000 engineering jobs will move from the Puget Sound area to Southern California. Columnist Danny Westneat interviewed a “lonely, ignored voice” who predicted… Read More
Boeing to move engineering jobs to California
Boeing will move 1,000 engineering jobs from Washington State to California, The Seattle Times reported today. Predictably, the engineers union, SPEEA, is having fits about this. Washington State probably won’t be too happy, either, especially after giving Boeing… Read More
Assessing the 777X events for Washington State, IAM, Boeing
Update, Nov. 6, 10:00am PST: A summary by IAM 751 of the contract details is here. Original Post: Here’s our take on the news that the IAM and Boeing reached a tentative agreement leading to the selection of… Read More
Implications of IAM-Boeing talks on 777X (Updated 11am PST Nov. 5)
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
Boeing 777X engineering assigned outside Washington State
The Seattle Times, Reuters and others are reporting that Boeing has decided to assign 777X engineering outside the State of Washington. The news went down like the proverbial lead balloon in Seattle. The fear, of course, is that… Read More
Right-to-Work, Creepy and Right-to-Worse in Washington State
No column we’ve written has gotten more attention outside the blogosphere than the one in which we concluded that if Washington State is to truly become competitive with the South, it needs to become a Right-to-Work state. Gov…. Read More
Odds and Ends: Coming soon–new Leeham News; Boeing v SPEEA; 86-seat Q400; Boeing 326; Budapest Air Show
Coming soon: We will be rolling out changes this month to Leeham News and Comment. We will expand our News and Analysis, providing the most insightful commentary of aviation issues of any on-line publication. Most on-line news resources… Read More
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Posted on September 30, 2014 by Scott Hamilton
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