747-800 program undergoes a management shakeup.

[straitman]

Management shakeup for 747-8 program

Posted by Michael Mecham at 8/27/2010 8:24 PM CDT



Late Friday, Boeing Commercial Airplanes Programs Vice President and General Manager Pat Shanahan told employees that, starting Monday, August 30, he will add oversight of the 747-8 Freighter and Intercontinental to his job as general manager of all aircraft production.

The current 747-8 general manager, Mo Yahyavi, will take on “a special assignment.” Yahyavi pushed the 747-8 F development program into flight test and the passenger version Intercontinental through production. But the airplane’s first delivery schedule has slipped more than a year off pace and is now into early 2011.

While praising Yahyavi for being instrumental in getting the -8F built and into flight test, Shanahan said he is making personnel changes “in an effort to align resources.”

 

[UP4014]

Sounds like they are "fixing" the problem they didn't have.

 

[SeaWolf]

A years slippage isn't really all that much compared with the 787 or A380, pretty much every large commercial aircraft has some slippage of the schedule. Although I guess this isn't a new design, just a revamp of an existing one.