Could Boeing be sold?

[codash1099]

This guy usually sounds sensible. but this seems a bit far fetched.

 

[RooFlyer]

“Boeing being sold” maybe a bit far-fetched, but the scenarios he canvases, and there were quite a few, could end up being on the table.

 

[jb747]

More to the point, why would anyone want to buy them?

 

[Human]

If "Downfall" is anything to go by, a new leadership group and culture may be exactly what Boeing needs!

 

[TheRealTMA]

This guy usually sounds sensible. but this seems a bit far fetched.

April Fools?

 

[NM]

More to the point, why would anyone want to buy them?

for their US Government Defense contracts? The profitable part of the business.

 

[kookaburra75]

for their US Government Defense contracts? The profitable part of the business.

Unfortunately it's not that profitable at the moment. They've taken a $6billion hit on the tanker contract

Boeing to take charges on KC-46 tanker over quality issue -finance chief

Boeing Co. will take additional charges to the KC-46 tanker program due to a supplier quality issue with the center fuel tank, the company's finance chief said Wednesday.

www.reuters.com

 

[NM]

Unfortunately it's not that profitable at the moment. They've taken a $6billion hit on the tanker contract

Boeing to take charges on KC-46 tanker over quality issue -finance chief

Boeing Co. will take additional charges to the KC-46 tanker program due to a supplier quality issue with the center fuel tank, the company's finance chief said Wednesday.

www.reuters.com

Yeah, that one can only be described as an own-goal. They started with a very well known, capable and reliable platform, and still blew out the schedule and costs.

 

[jb747]

Yeah, that one can only be described as an own-goal. They started with a very well known, capable and reliable platform, and still blew out the schedule and costs.

Yet another own goal, really. The 767 was an excellent aircraft, though I suspect that the aircraft that actually won the tanker competition would have been better choice. You know, the one that just about everyone else, Australia included, uses, and which came into service without any of the Boeing luggage.