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Today’s Boeing headlines center about a resumption of production for the 737 MAX and continued layoffs. Boeing has officially resumed 737 MAX production under the watchful eye of the FAA and additional employee training post-strike. Hopefully the new quality measures will help eliminate the rampant problems whistleblowers have been reporting in the company’s multiple final assembly facilities.
The company reported Orders and Deliveries for November, hitting a four-year low in deliveries, but a slight uptick in backlog from new orders. With a massive backlog, resuming higher rates of production and reaching the FAA mandated cap of 38 per month will be a key goal to be reached during the second half of 2025.
Layoffs at company facilities continued, both in California and Washington, with another 900 employees in total getting pink slips. The total to date is now around 4,000 on the way to 17,000 planned job losses.
Experts looking at the decision on the Deferred Prosecution Agreement revision between the Department of Justice and Boeing indicate that the judge in the case did not need to cite DEI in his decision, as the deal should have been rejected for the lack of enforcement teeth in how the external monitoring agreement was structured. While recommendations could be made, there was no adequate enforcement process if those recommendations were ignored.
Finally, IndiGo, the large Airbus operator in India that has aircraft currently grounded for maintenance, has arranged to wet lease two 737 MAX aircraft from Turkish carrier Correndon Airlines on an wet lease basis. Those aircraft will help enable the airline to maintain more of its schedule during continued Pratt & Whitney GTF aircraft groundings.
Links to key news stories follow:
- Boeing resumes 737 output after deliveries hit four-year low – BNN Bloomberg
- Boeing confirms 737 MAX in production after more than 2 months – Freight Waves
- Boeing Orders & Deliveries November 2024 – AirInsight
- Boeing lays off another 900 in Washington and California as part of 17,000 announced cuts – Fortune
- Judge didn’t need to cite DEI to reject Boeing deal, experts say – Bloomberg Law
- IndiGo wet leases more 737 MAX amid Airbus planes grounding –Aviation A2Z
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