Window dressing. #2 will continue the current trajectory. That place needs all the old guard to be 86’d, and some real outside leadership brought in to completely change the culture. Status quo.

It’s the FAA that is dragging their feet. There is no one at Boeing who can speed up the 737 MAX return to service.

The new CEO of Boeing, David Calhoun, is currently the head of private equity portfolio operations at Blackstone.

dragging their feet or finally actually doing their due diligence?

There was an article saying the FAA will inspect every 737 Max before return to service. It said the already build 400 plus airplanes could stretch in 2022 for delivery.

Political pressure from out of work Boeing and subcontractor employees? Shut down the line, and GDP takes a hit.

If it’s a Boeing, I ain’t going.

Merry Xmas everybody. Airbus 🤘

I sure hope this thing works because we sure seem to be putting a bunch of eggs into this basket. I’d like to see an order with Airbus for various NEO models to replace and grow our current fleet along with some type of 100 seat jet to split up the NB flying. The Max is here to stay, but other lift options would provide stability until Boeing (not a bunch of faith in them currently) or Airbus makes a clean sheet replacement. It’s sad. Boeing was known to make some of the best aircraft in he world until their focus shifted from engineering to bean counters and slick sales pitches.

Watch for used Airbus from Turkish coming this way
My guess 40 A320s since they are getting neos and their business going down for 2020-22 as they projected as well from Avianca some new deliveries diverted to United.
Summer will be senior Manning like never before too

After further review,

The company is looking at whether two bundles of critical wiring are too close together and could cause a short circuit. A short in that area could lead to a crash if pilots did not respond correctly, the people said. Boeing is still trying to determine whether that scenario could actually occur on a flight and, if so, whether it will need to separate the wire bundles in the roughly 800 Max jets that have already been built. The company says that the fix, if needed, is relatively simple.

The company informed the F.A.A. about the potential vulnerability last month, and Boeing’s new chief executive discussed possible changes to the wiring on an internal conference call last week, according to one of the people and the Boeing engineer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.

The company may eventually need to look into whether the same problem exists on the 737 NG, the predecessor to the Max. There are currently about 6,800 of those planes in service.

The senior Boeing engineer said that finding such problems and fixing them was not unusual and not particular to the Max or to Boeing.

And in a related note,

While assembling the Max, workers at Boeing’s Renton factory had ground down the outer shell of a panel that sits atop the engine housing in an effort to ensure a better fit into the plane. In doing so, they inadvertently removed the coating that insulates the panel from a lightning strike, taking away a crucial protection for the fuel tank and fuel lines. The F.A.A. is developing a directive that will require the company to restore lightning protection to the engine panel and Boeing is already in the process of resolving the issue

Geesh...

https://www.seattletimes.com/busines...eings-737-max/