Boeing in a sentence

A strike sign hangs from a post near a Boeing sign as Boeing factory workers and supporters gather on a picket line during the third day of a strike near the entrance to a Boeing production facility in Renton, Washington.

China is one of Boeing’s biggest markets for commercial aircraft, which might make it vulnerable to a boycott, but China's defence ministry mentioned only Boeing’s military arm, Boeing Defence, not its civilian jetliner business.

Analysts say Boeing was stung when Airbus unexpectedly sold its A350 wide-body jet to JAL 10 years ago in the wake of a crisis over battery problems on the competing Boeing 787, for which Japan is both a major supplier and customer.

During this year’s show, Emirates has announced a $52 billion aircraft purchase with Boeing Co., while its sister airline FlyDubai bought another $11 billion of aircraft from Boeing.

An unpainted Boeing 737-8 MAX parked at Renton Municipal Airport adjacent to Boeing’s factory.

Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun reportedly fought back tears at a meeting at Boeing’s 737 aircraft factory near Seattle on Tuesday.

Boeing last week withdrew its “best and final” proposal — which had included 30% pay raises and other benefits — after the union Boeing’s offer as disrespectful.

But the CEO of Boeing's largest engine maker GE Aerospace, Larry Culp, threw his weight behind Boeing's leadership.

Even so, from a public-optics standpoint, this stipulation is largely irrelevant: Public confidence in Boeing has been shattered, and a lot of PR-related cleanup work had better happen pronto, or Boeing is in deeper trouble than anyone may realize.

In 2017, the year before the first deadly plane crash, Boeing’s spending on dividends and stock buybacks was 66% of total spending, while only 9% of Boeing’s cash went into new equipment to manufacture planes.

Now the FAA says it is investigating these claims from a Boeing whistleblower, but Boeing is actually responding very, very strongly.

Spirit AeroSystems, which builds fuselages and other components for Boeing planes, said Friday that it will put 700 workers on three-week furloughs beginning later this month and will resort to layoffs if the Boeing strike continues past November.

The agency says FAA administrator Mike Whitaker discussed the findings with Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun last week, when the agency gave Boeing 90 days to come up with a plan of action to address its quality control problems.

The Boeing CEO doesn’t stalk factory floors like his predecessor, Dennis Muilenburg, a Boeing lifer and engineer by training who was forced out over his handling of the Max grounding in the wake of the two accidents.

The FAA has limited Boeing’s production of Max jetliners since shortly after the Alaska Airlines incident, but Boeing hasn’t even hit the FAA limits as it seeks to fix its manufacturing process.

The fuselage for Boeing 737 planes, its most popular model, is made by Kansas-based Spirit AeroSystems, which separated from Boeing in 2005.

The newspaper said that Boeing CEO David Calhoun is not expected to meet with the airline officials and that Boeing has offered to send its chairman, former Continental Airlines CEO Lawrence Kellner, and other board members.

The supplier that makes the fuselage of Boeing’s 737 MAX jets, Spirit AeroSystems, said it is working with Boeing on the issue.

This was supposed to be Boeing’s yearwhen it finally put its last 737 Max crisis behind it and CEO Dave Calhoun would be able to chart a path toward smoother skiesan ill-fated Alaska Airlines flight threw Boeing’s whole year into chaos.

While Boeing primarily produces large commercial aircraft for airlines, the major American manufacturer will also produce versions of its aircraft for private use under the Boeing Business Jet brand.