Major Boeing supplier to halt deliveries of 737 Max fuselages

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NEW YORK (AP) — The company that builds fuselages for Boeing will end deliveries intended for use in the 737 Max aircraft as damage from the troubled aircraft begins to ripple outward to suppliers.

Spirit AeroSystems, based in Witchita, Kansas, said Friday that Boeing asked that deliveries be wound down by the end of the year.

Revenue from 737 Max components account for more than half of Spirit's total annual revenue. The company employs 13,500 people, the largest job provider in Kansas' biggest city.

This week, Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly said that the state may have to help pay workers at a company if the planes don't return to the sky soon.


Shares of Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc. slid 2% Friday.

The Max was grounded worldwide in March after two crashes that killed a total of 346 people.

Boeing said Monday that it would halt Max production in January and can't say when it might resume.

That has hurt manufacturers that furnish Boeing with everything from fuselages to seats. General Electric Co., which makes engines for the Max, has been under pressure all week and its shares have fallen 3%


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My question is why Boeing, with all the computer experts why they have not fix the problem...or have they? Is it that the Federal Aviation Commission will not approve what they have done?
 

gennie said:
Boeing allowed a small problem to become a huge problem because they were too cheap to fix it while it was small.
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My question is why Boeing, with all the computer experts why they have not fix the problem...or have they? Is it that the Federal Aviation Commission will not approve what they have done?
 
Add to that the space vehicle failure. Right now, no light at the end of the tunnel.
Boeing employees total over 150,000... add to that the number of parts suppliers, and the dependent airlines....
...and the combined debt for the industry.... could be a problem, eh?
 
Tom Young said:
Add to that the space vehicle failure. Right now, no light at the end of the tunnel.
Boeing employees total over 150,000... add to that the number of parts suppliers, and the dependent airlines....
...and the combined debt for the industry.... could be a problem, eh?
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My question is why Boeing, with all the computer experts why they have not fix the problem...or have they? Is it that the Federal Aviation Commission will not approve what they have done?
 
A 737 costs about $90 Million. there are more than 400 completed planes sitting idle. Production was 52 planes/month. Watch as the growth of the airline industry draws to a standstill, as replacements don't keep up with the loss of older planes.
The trickle down effect on the entire airline industry is unimagineable. Then... what about the travel industry as a whole? Hmmmm... Boing Boing!
 


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