In a few weeks, the aircraft manufacturer will stop the production of the 747, which will not have survived the pandemic.
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The sky too often loaded with gray clouds from Seattle (United States) over the past three years emerges and Boeing wants this to be known. For the first time since the 737 Max crisis, in March 2019, the American aircraft manufacturer opened, in mid-June, to the international press, the doors of its Renton and Everett production sites. An initiative that owes nothing to chance. It preceded by just a few days the good news announced, Monday, June 20, by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) on the occasion of its general meeting, which provides for a return of profits “on the horizon in 2023 “For air transport. And Boeing wants to take its part.
In Return, in the suburbs of Seattle, the historic Boeing factory where the famous B29 bombers were assembled and which is celebrating its 80th anniversary, we activate around 737 max. After the breakdown of Covid’s two years, the site has become a hive again. But it is far from shooting at full speed and only three out of five assembly channels were relaunched. “We are looking for thousands of employees for all trades,” recognizes a lertier executive. It must be said that during the crisis, Boeing carved out in its workforce and licensed a lot more than 16,000 employees. Now he wants to recruit nearly 30,000 to deal with the requests for planes.
Manage destocking
For the time being, the American has the still modest ambition. His next goal for the end of 2023 is to release forty-seven 737 max each month. It is still very far from it. “We are not yet at thirty-one 737 max per month,” said a spokesperson for the aircraft manufacturer. Several inpasses behind Airbus, which comes out, each month, fifty-four A320s every month and plans to climb to sixty copies of its featured medium-haul in the course of 2023.
Helded by his labor needs, Boeing is also struggling with many of his suppliers and subcontractors who have still not found their activity levels before the pandemic. In addition to its slightly sluggish rate, the seattle aircraft manufacturer must also, at the same time, manage the destocking of almost three hundred 737 max which have been taking dust for more than two years on huge car parks while waiting for be delivered to their client companies.
Launched in pursuit of the Rival Airbus, Boeing awaits by crossing the fingers very strongly the certification of the 737 Max 10, the largest version of its range of medium-haul. The only one capable of competing a little bit with the A321, the new best-seller of Airbus, some of which, which offer the costs of a medium-haul and the performances of a long-haul, make a tobacco with low -cost companies. The challenge is of importance for the manufacturer, who must absolutely obtain the green light from the regulatory authorities before the end of 2022. Fast: it would be exposed to significant additional costs all the more difficult to bear May Boeing have just chained three annual financial exercises completed in bright red.
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