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20 Years of Outsourcing Come Back to Haunt Boeing

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Alaska Airlines Door Blows Out in Flight For 20 years, Boeing has engaged in collaborative product development with a significant number of suppliers. PLM designer Dassault Systèmes announced at the onset of the program that their software would “comprise Boeing’s Global Collaboration Environment.”

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Boeing’s Newest Production and Quality Challenge

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Latest Incident On Friday of last week, an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft flying at 16,000 feet experienced a main cabin decompression as a result of a rear exit fuselage door plug blowing out. Global air regulators are expected to follow. based carriers Alaska Airlines and United Airlines.

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Boeing’s Financial Performance- External Pressures Increase

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Management Commentary As we have noted in prior updates, the latest being last week , the incident of a near catastrophic blowout of an Alaska Airlines newly delivered Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft has triggered a series of new events hat have added more scrutiny to Boeing ’s production and quality control processes. All rights reserved.

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Breaking News- Major Senior Leadership Change for Boeing

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Calhoun, a former General Electric and Blackstone executive was appointed in 2020 in the midst of the global wide grounding of Boeing 737 MAX aircraft as a result of two fatal crashes. Each of these incidents have prompted the FAA and other global regulators to step-up their monitoring of Boeing ’s production and engineering processes.

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Airbus Sets 2024 Aircraft Production and Delivery Target

Supply Chain Matters

As a result of the Alaska Airlines cabin blowout incident, the FAA has placed a current restriction on Boeing 737 MAX monthly production levels, pending ongoing audits of Boeing internal and major supplier production and quality control processes. The implication is that Boeing has significant business and competitive challenges to overcome.

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What’s Holding Back Customer-Centric Air Cargo?

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Matt Castle, VP Global Forwarding Products and Services, C.H. Alaska Airlines launched online seat booking in December 1995 – over 20 years ago! Image courtesy of Alaska Airlines. Charley Dehoney, Exec VP Strategy and Growth at Airspace Technologies. Creating New Business. Spearheading Tech Innovation.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 11 – 17)

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From January 28 to February 4, a Chinese-operated high-altitude balloon was seen in North American airspace, including Alaska, western Canada, and the contiguous United States. A big story earlier this month was the reported Chinese spy balloon. On February 4, the U.S. Air Force shot down the balloon over U.S.