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Boeing is under intensifying pressure to end the strike that could cost it several billion dollars

Boeing proposes 'final' offer to striking workers

Boeing has made a "best and final" pay offer to thousands of striking workers, but its largest union declined to put it to a vote, saying the planemaker had refused to bargain over the proposal that fell short of members' demands.

Business • 24 Sep 24

30,000 Boeing machinists went on strike on Friday, halting production of its best-selling 737 MAX and other airplanes

Boeing lays off workers as no progress made on strike

Boeing has said it will temporarily lay off tens of thousands of employees after about 30,000 machinists went on strike on Friday, halting production of its best-selling 737 MAX and other airplanes.

Business • 19 Sep 24

A strike by more than 30,000 Boeing workers continues

Boeing freezes hiring, weighs layoffs as strike continues

Boeing is freezing hiring and weighing temporary layoffs to cut costs as a strike by more than 30,000 workers entered its fourth day yesterday.

Business • 17 Sep 24

Striking workers started to gather outside the entrances of Boeing factories in the Seattle area

Boeing freezes hiring, as strike enters fourth day

Boeing said it is freezing hiring and weighing temporary furloughs in the coming weeks to manage costs as a strike by more than 30,000 Boeing workers who build planes in factories on the US west coast stretched into its fourth day.

Business • 16 Sep 24

Ryanair is one of Boeing's largest customers

Ryanair may get 5 fewer planes by next summer - O'Leary

Ryanair Group CEO Michael O'Leary said that a prolonged Boeing workers' strike may cut the number of aircraft it receives by next summer to 20 from an anticipated 25.

Business • 16 Sep 24

Boeing workers in US strike after 96% vote for walkout

Boeing's US West Coast factory workers have walked off the job after overwhelmingly rejecting a contract deal, halting production of the planemaker's strongest-selling jet as it wrestles with severe output delays and heavy debt.

US • 13 Sep 24

Roughly 30,000 workers who produce Boeing's 737 MAX, 767 and 777 jets in the Seattle and Portland areas are voting on their first full contract in 16 years.

Boeing strike threat looms as workers vote on contract

Boeing's US West Coast factory workers started voting today on a much-criticised new contract and a possible strike, piling pressure on the planemaker as it wrestles with chronic production delays and mounting debt.

Business • 12 Sep 24

Ryanair Group CEO Michael O'Leary said today he is very happy to continue working at the airline until his contract runs out in 2028

Ryanair predicts fares will be down for remainder of year

The group chief executive of Ryanair has said the airline expects fares to be lower for the remainder of this year.

Business • 12 Sep 24

If approved, the proposed four-year contract, which includes a wage increase of 25% and commitment to build the next commercial airplane in the Seattle area, is an important win for new Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg

Boeing reaches tentative labour deal with 25% pay hike

Boeing has reached a tentative agreement with a union representing more than 32,000 workers in the US Pacific Northwest, in a deal that could help avert a possible crippling strike as early as September 13.

Business • 09 Sep 24

The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral on 5 June

Boeing's uncrewed Starliner spaceship lands successfully

Boeing's beleaguered Starliner returned to Earth without the astronauts who travelled in it to the International Space Station, after NASA deemed the risk too great.

World • 07 Sep 24

Boeing's Starliner spacecraft pictured launching from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida earlier this year

Boeing's troubled spaceship to return home without crew

Boeing's problem-plagued Starliner is set to finally depart the International Space Station, returning to Earth without astronauts after NASA deemed the risk too great.

World • 06 Sep 24

Ryanair shares had plunged 15% last month when Michael O'Leary warned of a downward trend in airfares that could exceed 10% in its key July-September quarter

Ryanair's O'Leary says fare falls have levelled out

Ryanair has today upgraded its summer air fare outlook, with group CEO Michael O'Leary telling Reuters he no longer saw a risk of double-digit percentage falls as European short-haul weakness had "levelled out".

Business • 27 Aug 24

Cathay Pacific operates a mixed fleet of Boeing and Airbus aircraft

Cathay Pacific to buy 30 Airbus A330-900 aircraft

Cathay Pacific will buy 30 Airbus A330-900 wide-body aircraft, with options to buy another 30, the Hong Kong-based airline said today.

Business • 07 Aug 24

Boeing said it delivered a total of 92 aircraft during the second quarter, down 32% from the same time last year

Boeing names aerospace veteran Kelly Ortberg as new CEO

Boeing has today named aerospace industry veteran Kelly Ortberg as its new President and CEO after a months-long search, tasking the former Rockwell Collins executive with the monumental job of turning around the struggling planemaker.

Business • 31 Jul 24

The US Justice Department said Boeing knowingly made false representations about key software for the 737 MAX plane

Boeing finalises plea deal after fatal 737 Max crashes

Boeing has finalised a guilty plea to a criminal fraud conspiracy charge and agreed to pay a $243.6 million fine after it breached a 2021 deferred prosecution agreement with the US Justice Department, according to a court filing.

World • 25 Jul 24

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer with Airbus employees at the Farnborough Airshow

Aviation summit opens amid shortages, supply chain woes

Aviation leaders will meet at a marque summit outside London today as the industry struggles with supply chain disruptions, aircraft delays and floundering plans to reduce emissions.

Business • 22 Jul 24

Low-cost airline Wizz Air flies an all-Airbus fleet

Wizz Air sees delivery delays after Airbus cuts targets

Wizz Air expects further delays in deliveries of Airbus planes, but the budget carrier remains confident it can increase its capacity over the next few years, its chief executive Jozsef Varadi told Reuters.

Business • 09 Jul 24

The charge relates to two 737 MAX crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia over a five-month period in 2018 and 2019, which killed 346 people

Boeing to plead guilty in probe of fatal 737 MAX crashes

Boeing has agreed to plead guilty to a criminal fraud conspiracy charge to resolve a US Department of Justice investigation linked to two 737 MAX fatal crashes.

World • 08 Jul 24

It is believed that up to 30 people on the Air Europa flight were hurt

Emergency landing in Brazil after turbulence injuries

An Air Europa Boeing plane has made an emergency landing in South America after several people were injured by "strong turbulence" on a flight from the Spanish capital Madrid to Montevideo in Uruguay, the airline said.

World • 01 Jul 24

Spirit AeroSystems has a significant manufacturing plant in Belfast with about 3,500 staff

Airbus to take over some of Belfast's Spirit operations

Boeing has agreed to buy back Spirit AeroSystems for $4.7 billion in stock and Airbus moved to take on the supplier's loss-making Europe-focused activities in return for hundreds of millions of dollars of compensation in a rare coordinated move.

Business • 01 Jul 24

Airbus cuts key targets and takes hefty Space charge

Airbus has softened its key industrial and financial targets and took a hefty €900m charge for its troubled space activities as Europe's largest aerospace group sought a clean slate approach to supply disruptions and commercial risks.

Business • 25 Jun 24

Relatives of the victims of two fatal Boeing 737 MAX crashes have asked the US Justice Department to seek a fine against the company of up to $24.78 billion

Families of Boeing crash victims ask US to seek huge fine

Relatives of the victims of two fatal Boeing 737 MAX crashes have asked the US Justice Department to seek a fine against the planemaker of up to $24.78 billion and move forward with a criminal prosecution.

Business • 20 Jun 24

Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun appearing before the US Senate

Boeing CEO takes 'responsibility' for firm's shortcomings

US senators attacked the CEO of Boeing for the plane maker's tarnished safety record, overshadowing his apology to families who lost loved ones in two 737 MAX crashes and acceptance of responsibility after a January mid-air emergency.

US • 19 Jun 24

The case relates to a deferred prosecution agreement over two MAX crashes in 2018 and 2019 that together claimed 346 lives

Boeing faces deadline to rebut possible US prosecution

Boeing faces a deadline today to respond to a US Department of Justice determination that the planemaker can be prosecuted for violating a 2021 deal that allowed it to escape criminal prosecution over two fatal 737 MAX crashes.

US • 13 Jun 24

Watch: Boeing's Starliner astronauts arrive at ISS

Boeing's new Starliner capsule and an inaugural two-member NASA crew safely docked with the International Space Station, meeting a key test in proving the vessel's flight-worthiness and sharpening Boeing's competition with Elon Musk's Space X.

World • 07 Jun 24