Boeing’s serious problems started when they merged with McDonnell-Douglas.
Agree with the correlation and the coinciding point in time. The real culprit was Harry Stonecipher... a real asshole CEO that had been at McD only a very short time before the merger — came from Sunstrand. He did straighten out the scandals that had been at McD... but his drive for cost savings and massive outsourcing that he and Alan Mulally (former President of Ford Motor Company) conjured up really screwed Boeing up... The 787 launch was nothing short of disaster and it seems that they have not had a successful new product launch since.
“Boeing’s serious problems started when they merged with McDonnell-Douglas.”
I’ve heard that said before but, I think it has more to do with our woke universities and the kind of people they’re graduating.