Can anyone fix Boeing?

Financial Times ^ | 25 Oct, 2024 | Claire Bushey in Chicago and Philip Georgiadis in London

[pfflier]

Boeing has it's problems but another elephant in the room is the willingness of the media, government regulators and even the guy on the street to stomp on them while they are down too.

We all saw instances where the media injected Boeing's name into every airplane incident headline, relevant or not..."Another BOEING airliner suffers a flat tire" type stuff.

At times, this almost appears to be a coordinated effort, maybe even a blood sport to drive Boeing into the ground.

[catnipman]

“Did the unions push Boeing out of much of the production business?”

boeing has had unions for over half a century and was the envy of the world in terms of super high-quality engineering and manufacturing prowess ...

newgen C-suite bean-counter MSB’s who couldn’t engineer changing a light-bulb off-shored everything possible, just like every other “American” giganacorp ...

“global” manufacturing to save a buck via slave labor wages, you know, so-called Democrat/RINO “free trade” ...

it wasn’t that long ago that most everything we consumed was made in America, and yes things cost more, but blue collar workers were also paid enough that they could afford to buy the things made in America, buy a house and two cars, and raise a family ... now we have cheap chinese junk sold by the megaton on amazon and folks who struggle to buy eggs at the grocery store ...

[onona]

Step 1: Get rid of the union

[discostu]

Yeah. But it’ll be hard. The troubles started with the McDD merger. McDD was always focused on shareholders above all. Once that culture took over quality started slipping. So first fire everybody at the top, next move HQ back to being near the where the planes are actually being built, then fill all the C and V level slots with engineers, preferably quality assurance. Then muddle through about a decade of low profits while they redo every single procedure and hardly make any planes.

[Organic Panic]

Yes. But is there the political will to do what is needed?

Fire half the staff. Fire every union worker. Eliminate the DEI AA programs. Rehire non union staff and build a more collaborative relationship with numerous small vendors to eliminate bottle necks and single source supply chains.

[dfwgator]

But engineers back in charge of the company instead of the bean counters.

[dfwgator]

But=Put

[Svartalfiar]

my experience with it that their space operations are hopelessly enmired in NASA CYA paperwork and needless oversight. They’d do better out of that until NASA goes by the wayside, IMO.

Not a big deal. Government pays for that doubling in costs, so really, Boeing should make more money off of that, not less. Unless they screwed up BoEs and their overall contract, then sure. But almost all of that extra effort to meet gov't paperwork is a pass-through cost to the contract.

[GaryCrow]

Did the unions push Boeing out of much of the production business?

No. Filling management with financial types who knew nothing about building airplanes and viewed it as an inconvenience ruined them. The unions didn't cause this mess, Boeing's current problems with the unions are a result of years of C suite screwups and screwing over their employees.