Boeing
Is Boeing Going? Maybe
The once unthinkable idea is slowly becoming reality
This article is featured in the November/December issue of Seattle Business magazine. Subscribe here to access the print edition. Ohio and North Carolina figure prominently in the birth of the modern aviation era, and if you dont remember your history, theyll helpfully remind you on their license plates. Yet neither state is today a major…
Boeing Temporarily Shutters Production Operations in the Puget Sound Region Due to COVID-19 Crisis
The company will continue to pay workers and plans an orderly approach to restarting work when the suspension is lifted
The company will continue to pay workers and plans an ‘orderly approach’ to restarting work when the suspension is lifted
Boeing Commits $100M to Assist Victims of 737 Max crashes
Companys CEO says effort represents an initial outreach to bring some comfort to victims families
Boeing has announced that it is setting up a $100 million fund to address the family and community needs of individuals affected by the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max aircraft crashes. The investment, which will be made over multiple years, will go to support education, hardship and living expenses for families; community programs;…
Alaska Airlines Is Awaiting Delivery of Nearly Three Dozen Now-Grounded Boeing 737 Max Aircraft
Airline is taking a wait-and-see attitude about the future of the pending purchase commitments
The Boeing 737 Max aircraft crisis touches another aviation company with major operations in Seattle: Alaska Airlines, which has purchase commitments for 32 of the aircraft. The first delivery of a Max jet to Alaska is scheduled for this summer. The balance of aircraft are slated to be delivered through 2023, according to a company…
In Reversal, FAA Grounds Boeing 737 Max Aircraft
Boeing issues statement throwing its support behind the federal agencys action
The Federal Aviation Administration today, March 13, issued an order grounding all Boeing 737 Max 8 and Max 9 aircraft, citing new evidence that there were some similarities between the two fatal Max 8 crashes, occurring in late October and this past Sunday, that together killed 346 people. The FAAs statement: The FAA is ordering…
Despite Worldwide Outcry Over Boeings 737 Max Crashes, FAA Continues to Green Light Flights
Dozens of nations and foreign airlines have grounded the planes after second Max 8 crash in five months
The Boeing Co. is dealing with a mounting crisis in the wake of the March 10 crash of a 737 Max 8 airliner in Ethiopia that claimed the lives of all 157 souls onboard, which was the second crash involving a Max 8 since October of last year, when a Lion Air flight crashed off…
Past Experience: Boeings Long History with China
Lake Union, Seattle 1916
China-born Wong Tsu, pictured in the foreground, was the first aeronautical engineer Bill Boeing hired at his fledgling airplane company. Wong, a graduate of MIT, designed the Model C bi-wing trainer, Boeings first commercial success. (The U.S. Navy bought 50.) The two-seat, open-cockpit seaplane the first all-Boeing design made its inaugural flight on November 15,…
The Health Care Fix
How value-based medicine can help businesses and workers move away from a harmful, wasteful system.
When Dr. Jorge Garcia, associate director of the residency program at Swedish Family Medicine, talks to his young residents about the dysfunctional way most health care is paid for in the United States, he tells them to imagine a patient who comes in with a cancer in her right arm. In the operating room, the…
Executive Q+A with Benson Porter
As BECU approaches some significant milestones, the credit union's CEO keeps his eye on a community-centered mission.
BECU, formerly the Boeing Employees Credit Union, was founded in 1935 at the height of the Great Depression. As CEO Benson Porter tells it, Boeing was still hiring at the time but workers were expected to provide their own tools. Scraping together enough money for new or replacement tools was difficult, Porter says, and most…