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Airbus to forego A350 launch aid
That’s the scuttlebutt out of Europe, anyway. Reports say Airbus parent company EADS — which is set to…
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Flying fish
Boeing Blogger-in-Chief Randy Baseler http://www.boeing.com/randy/ seems tickled by Alaska Airlines’ “Salmon-Three-Salmon” jet.
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US airlines are missing the Connexion
The New York Times http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/10/03/business/boeing.php notes that there’s a big gap between U.S. and foreign airlines when it…
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Ex-Boeing salesman speaks out
Boeing’s blown it over the last decade by failing to adequately assess Airbus strategy and pursuing diversification instead…
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Counting the costs
Flight International’s Guy Norris http://www.flightinternational.com/Articles/2005/10/04/201914/Boeing+counts+cost+of+strike+action.html estimates that Boeing is probably out $50 million as the result of the…
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Trade mag says Boeing will land Qantas deal
Boeing plans to stretch the legs of its globe-trotting 777-200LR Worldliner and that’s enough to get Qantas to…
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More looks at the potential strike settlement
The Chicago Tribune http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/business/12752481.htm says the Machinists are the winners in the strike, although Boeing can take some…
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Analyzing the deal
Lots of reporters spent a lot of time talking to analysts Monday about the proposed settlement in the…
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Starting Week Four
David Clay and Don Grinde, two Everett Machinists, sat down for a Q&A interview with the Socialist Worker.…
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Boeing says Wichita Machinists are crossing line
Twenty-seven percent of Machinist union members have crossed the picket line and are back at work, KBSD-TV in…
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For the record
You know, it’s seemed like I’ve been writing about a lot of Boeing deals this year, and sonuvagun,…
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Buzz about BizWeek
I got about a half-dozen e-mails over the weekend from Machinists about BizWeek’s latest story http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_39/b3952115.htm on the…
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Impact in Wichita
SPEEA is warning its members at Spirit AeroSystems in Wichita that a furlough could be coming as a…
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Tanker talk
Journalists who aren’t busy writing about the IAM strike at Boeing are instead busy writing about Boeing’s revived…
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Sept. 13 strike update
The New York Times swoops in to look at the strike http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/09/13/business/boeing.php and notes the same thing you’ve…
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Day 11 strike update
Go-to analyst Richard Aboulafia weighs in http://www.richardaboulafia.com/shownote.asp?id=202 on the IAM strike with his monthly newsletter to clients.
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Aer Lingus considering Dreamliner buy
That’s what the Belfast Telegraph reports, http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=660670 saying the Irish airline is looking to buy as many as…
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Thursday’s strike updates
Stock market analysts are telling Bloomberg News http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=a6mDNhTWfomM&refer=us they think that Boeing is ready for a long strike.
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Thursday night updates
Boeing just released an Alan Mulally memo outlining his thoughts on the strike, and I’m waiting for a…
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Strike update
This just in — they’re still not talking. That doesn’t mean that others aren’t talking about the Machinist…