Boeing is resuming production of its bestselling plane, the 737 Max, for the first time since 33,000 workers began a seven-week strike that ended in early November. The company said Tuesday that plane-building resumed at its plant in Renton, Washington, after going through a process of identifying and fixing potential problems. Boeing shares rose 5%…
Boeing delivered 13 commercial jets in November, less than a quarter of the 56 jetliners it handed over to customers 12 months earlier, the U.S. planemaker reported on Tuesday. Deliveries were down from 14 in October, when most of the company’s aircraft production was still shut down during a seven-week-long strike that ended Nov. 5….
By Dan Catchpole and Allison Lampert SEATTLE – Boeing restarted production of its best-selling 737 MAX jetliner last week, about a month after the end of a seven-week strike by 33,000 factory workers, according to three sources familiar with the matter. Getting the 737 MAX production line moving again is essential to the heavily debt-burdened…
(Reuters) -U.S. planemaker Boeing is letting 396 employees go at various locations in Washington, a notice on Monday from the state’s Employment Security Department showed. Monday’s notice is a part of wider cuts announced in October that are expected to affect a total of 17,000 Boeing jobs, around 10% of the company’s global workforce, either…
By Tim Hepher BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The head of European planemaker Airbus said talks to finalise the takeover of part of troubled U.S. aerostructures supplier Spirit Aerosystems were going smoothly but that bringing it into Airbus would “not be a walk in the park”. Airbus plans to take over the running of four Spirit plants…
By Dan Catchpole, Allison Lampert (Reuters) -Boeing will lay off more than 2,200 workers in the U.S. states of Washington and Oregon, according to filings posted on Monday, as part of the debt-heavy U.S. planemaker’s plan to cut 17,000 jobs, or 10% of its global workforce. The aerospace giant started telling affected U.S. workers on…
SEATTLE (AP) — Boeing has delivered layoff notices to more than 400 members of its professional aerospace labor union, part of thousands of cuts planned as the company struggles to recover from financial and regulatory trouble as well as an eight-week strike by its Machinists union. The pink slips went out last week to members…
By David Shepardson, Allison Lampert WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Boeing said on Wednesday it is issuing layoff notices starting this week to workers impacted by a broader plan by the heavily indebted planemaker to cut 17,000 jobs, or 10% of its global workforce. U.S. staff receiving the notices this week will stay on Boeing’s payroll until January…
SEATTLE (Reuters) – Boeing said on Tuesday it delivered 14 commercial jets in October, less than half of the 34 jets it handed over to customers during the same month in 2023, after a weeks-long strike halted most of its aircraft production. The U.S. planemaker is requiring all of its West Coast factory workers to…
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Boeing’s head of quality for commercial airplanes, Elizabeth Lund, who has spearheaded the planemaker’s improvement plans, will retire in December, the company said on Monday. A 33-year veteran of Boeing, Lund had been named in February to the new position of senior vice president of quality for its commercial…