Boeing’s current woes with the 737 Max 9 are the latest chapter in a 20-year saga that has seen its reputation as a paragon of world class engineering excellence battered by strategic, design and quality missteps. How did Boeing get here, and why does it continue to struggle? To help answer these questions, we’ve pulled together a select reading list from The Air Current archives, with an emphasis on the industry analysis that is our core strength.
- 2023.11.03: Spirit AeroSystems settles back into Boeing’s orbit
- 2023.09.30: Alaska Airlines, finally all-Boeing, ventures beyond the recovery
- 2023.08.23: Boeing and Spirit grapple with newly discovered quality issue on 737 Max aircraft
- 2023.06.01: Boeing’s CEO nixes the idea of acquiring Spirit AeroSystems
- 2023.05.02: Inside the strained union of Boeing and Spirit AeroSystems
- 2022.05.18: Pentagon has quietly growing doubts about Boeing’s direction
- 2021.07.15: Boeing grapples with a ‘Pandoras box’ on 787
- 2021.03.09: Emirates’ Tim Clark says Boeing ‘not getting it’ on 737 Max, 787
- 2019.12.23: New Boeing CEO tasked with fixing rifts he and the board helped cultivate
- 2019.12.19: Supply chain built on promise of 737 Max bumper crop braces for shutdown
- 2019.11.21: The DC-10, 737 Max and the struggle to polish a tarnished airplane
- 2019.03.19: The world pulls the andon cord on the 737 Max
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