Boeing's Dreamliner nightmare continues (Winging It)

Boeing's Dreamliner nightmare continues

Do you get the impression Boeing's Dreamliner may not fly in our lifetime? Here's the latest Dreamliner deferred story from the AP.

Posted by Tom Belden on April 10, 2008 11:57 AM | Permalink

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YHS:

The airlines have had 18 months to check their aircraft to make sure they were up to FAA standards.. and they DIDN'T DO IT. Now the problems have come home to roost..
It's not the FAA'a fault,, it's AMERICAN AIRLINES, SOUTHWEST AIRLINES, UNITED AIRLINES ETC...Blame them

Posted by YHS | April 10, 2008 3:06 PM

Posted on April 10, 2008 15:06

rich:

Subbing out major construction around the world might be the hot thing in the MBA textbooks and case studies today, but it doesn't really work in a top-down organization like Boeing. Why is anyone surprised that it didn't fit Boeing's culture?

Next time I bet they perform the final assembly like they used to - all at one place with their own workers.

The "race to the bottom" to save a few pennies on the dollar has a lot of costs that these executives don't look at until they find out that the mess they made is taking every cent (and then some) that they would have made by doing it right -and in-house- the first time.

Posted by rich | April 13, 2008 10:42 AM

Posted on April 13, 2008 10:42

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