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The 777: The Art Form at Its Peak
Subscription Required By the Leeham News Team Part 4 in a Series examining one of Boeing’s steps toward recovery. May 14, 2026, © Leeham News: If there is a single moment in Boeing’s history when the pre-production change… Read More
Boeing’s Long Arc from Disciplined Rework to Distributed Chaos
Subscription Required By the Leeham News Team Part 1 of a five part series about Boeing’s path to recovery. May 4, 2026, © Leeham News: From a 30-airplane cockpit rework crisis on the 767 to a supplier-driven configuration… Read More
Boeing is on its way back, but there’s a long way to go
Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton and Karl Sinclair Jan. 8, 2026, © Leeham News: Boeing is on its way back. Not to its glory days of engineering prowess. This won’t happen until Boeing develops a new airplane, and… Read More
Pontifications: Boeing needs massive reset, and not just with labor
Subscription Required Now open to all readers. CEO Kelly Ortberg’s “reset” plan is long overdue. But Boeing needs to do better for the IAM members, and the members need to give up on the defined pension plan. Oct…. Read More
Boeing 3Q deliveries up despite strike
By Scott Hamilton Oct. 8, 2024, © Leeham News: Third quarter deliveries by Boeing were up slightly despite a strike the last two weeks of the quarter by its machinists union. Boeing deliveries 92 737s during the quarter,… Read More
Boeing Financial Analysis – Inventory Q1 2024
Subscription Required By the Leeham News team April 29, 2024, © Leeham News: The Boeing Co (BA) released its financial results on April 24 for the first quarter of this year. BA relies heavily on Program Accounting to… Read More
Boeing unlikely to meet FAA’s 90-day deadline for new safety program
By Scott Hamilton April 18, 2024, © Leeham News: Boeing appears unlikely to meet a 90-day deadline to submit a comprehensive plan to address safety concerns, insiders tell LNA. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Feb. 28 gave… Read More
Boeing defends 787, 777 against whistleblower charges
By Scott Hamilton April 17, 2024, © Leeham News: A whistleblower appeared before the US Senate today recommending that the entire fleet of Boeing 787s be grounded until inspections can be performed to assure safety. The whistleblower, Sam… Read More
A deep dive into the twin-aisle market
Subscription Required By Vincent Valery Introduction Feb. 20, 2023, © Leeham News: Last month, LNA analyzed the single-aisle market order opportunities for Airbus, Boeing, COMAC, Embraer, and UAC. We now focus on the twin-aisle duopoly of Airbus and… Read More
Boeing to add 4th 737 FAL at underutilized Everett plant
Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton Jan. 30, 2023, © Leeham News: Boeing will establish a fourth final assembly line (FAL) for the 737 in the vast Everett (WA) assembly plant in 2024. The company announced the move internally… Read More