re: Boeing, not Spirit, mis-installed piece that blew off Alaska MAX 9 jet, industry source sa

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Boeing is a once great company that was committed to being run from the manufacturing side and is now committed to being run by the sales/investors’ side.

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Matt Stoller, whose main interest is in monopolies/anti-trust, has written about this in some detail.

thebignewsletter.com/p/the-coming-boeing-bailout

theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/11/boeing-capitalism-deregulation

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Boeing, not Spirit, mis-installed piece that blew off Alaska MAX 9 jet, industry source sa

The Spirit referred to in the article isn't the yellow airline, it's Spirit Aerospace which is a parts supplier for Boeing.

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Glad you cleared that up. I was just trying to picture the typical Spirit Airlines passenger disembarking in Fairbanks, AK

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All those passengers are going to get paid.

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Meh.

They’ll probably buy that guy a new shirt though

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Lots of armchair critics here have zero idea what they are talking about.

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Yep, and AB had to pay billions recently for corruption

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Lots of armchair critics here have zero idea what they are talking about.

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That’s good. Which one killed hundreds of people the past few years and have been a shitshow since? That’s right, Boeing, the topic of this thread.

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Boeing was once a great company committed to excellence not it’s a shite company committed to building everything as cheaply as possible. The merger with MD did them in

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You referring to the Boeing that delivered an aircraft with a design flaw which led to thrust reversers deploying mid flight killing 223? The Boeing who continued to obfuscate the investigation once the cause became clear?

We need to stop with this idea that Boeing was a perfect company before the merger.

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Boeing is a once great company that was committed to being run from the manufacturing side and is now committed to being run by the sales/investors’ side.

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Can't focus on manufacturing when you don't manufacture anything. They assemble airplanes they don't make much of anything.

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Sheesh, don’t quit your day job baw. Boeing still makes incredible aircraft. This is probably the last chance for Boeing mgmt to get their shat together though

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Airbus is killing them. The only reason Boeing is going to keep the business it has is because Airbus doesn't have tk capacity to supply the market. But I'm guessing that Boeing will have to come down on price just to keep what they already have.

Not sure I would blame capitalism because labor unions are a huge push against capitalism. And I understand the wanting profits aspect, but that’s because we allow our politicians to be on these boards and invest in these companies. That’s not really a free market if your elected officials are running the show and making laws to benefit their own pockets and the companies they are invested in.


It’s the government picking winners and losers.

If it’s a Boeing, I’m not going.