Hints and tips:
...“It’s urgently time to go — Calhoun’s tenure is an embarrassment,” said Richard Aboulafia, managing director at AeroDynamic Advisory....
...Chief executive David Calhoun was part of the team that led that strategy, as a board director since 2009....
...“Given what’s happened to its culture and senior management, we can expect more of the same,” remarks Richard Aboulafia, a veteran analyst....
...West coast editor Richard Waters says the magnitude of the EU’s giant test in micromanagement is hard to overstate....
...Pledges by senior managers, including chief executive Dave Calhoun, to improve quality and engineering processes have fallen short....
...Richard Zogheb, head of global debt capital markets at Citi, said the move reflected “a combination of ‘let’s avoid the nonsense of the debt ceiling and let’s take advantage of what’s a pretty good market...
...“We still would like to deliver planes to China,” said David Calhoun, Boeing chief executive....
...Dave Calhoun became chief executive of Boeing at its very lowest ebb two years ago....
...Boeing’s relentless production issues were “just the absence of leadership at the top”, said Richard Aboulafia, an aerospace consultant at AeroDynamic Advisory....
...His remarks were like “exclaiming the risk of a car accident you’ve already been in”, said Richard Aboulafia, aerospace analyst at Teal Group....
...“If it goes on for too long, I pay a price,” Dave Calhoun, Boeing’s chief executive, told a conference last month....
...And if they don’t launch a new plane, they could lose the ability to do so,” said Richard Aboulafia, vice-president at Teal Group, the aerospace consultancy....
...“It seems to be gradually dawning on investors that Boeing’s governance has been less than ideal,” said aerospace analyst Richard Aboulafia at Teal Group....
...David Calhoun, Boeing chief executive, said last month that the Max would return to service in the fourth quarter....
...“We have the utmost faith in this product,” said Boeing president and chief executive Dave Calhoun last week at the signing of the Ryanair order....
...“He is better dealing with the outside world [than Mr Muilenburg] and that is needed right now,” echoed Richard Aboulafia, vice-president of Teal Group, the aerospace consultancy....
...Richard Aboulafia, vice-president of Teal group, the aviation consultancy, said Boeing’s disappointing order numbers reflected airlines’ enthusiasm for Airbus’ A321neo, a single aisle jet that lets airlines...
...Mr Calhoun said Boeing needed to rebuild trust with airlines, regulators and the flying public....
...Another possibility is that Boeing bids less aggressively for defence work, said analyst Richard Aboulafia of the Teal Group....
...“There are many good reasons not to have lawyers run a company,” says Richard Aboulafia at aerospace consultancy Teal Group....
...That would leave around $3bn of agricultural products alone and $2bn of oil products trapped, Mr Calhoun said....
...“We think there’s tremendous upside and opportunity in Univision and a big component of that is in advertising,” Richard Bressler, a managing director at THL, told the Financial Times....
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