Boeing to restart production at Washington state plant next week as company suffers amid Covid-19 shutdown

…from Russia Today, Moscow
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[ Editor’s Note: America got a light at the end of the tunnel today boost with this good news. Washington state took an early hammering on the virus so this is a victory lap for its turning the corner to getting people back to work.
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Unfortunately the testing scandal is still upon us. It is a dangerous trick to try to pull off with getting large numbers back to work without the testing to verify that they and those working around them are OK.
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But here were are, better off than a few weeks ago, but still front line medical workers not having the protective equipment that they need, and the horror stories on nursing home staff at the end of the supply chain abandoning those in their care to save their own lives.
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These plants are something to see from the inside. I toured the Lockheed-Martin plant in Atlanta once and they would not allow photo shooting even in the reception room. But what impressed me more is how clean they were, with not a speck of dust or dirt on the floors which literally had a polished shine to them.
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Trump passed the opening back up strategies down to the states. I think his protectors did it to put them in a position to take the political hit if reinfections popped up again, but where he could still take credit for their success.
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It was a smart political play from a man that has made every decision on the virus scourge based on what was the best for his re-election. This is a man devoted to himself, first and last, and not very skillful as hiding it …Jim W. Dean ]
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Boeing, South Seattle plant
– First published … April 17, 2020 –
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Boeing said it hopes to resume aircraft production at factories in Washington state early next week, closed amid the Covid-19 crisis, as the firm is reeling from both the pandemic fallout and the ongoing problems with its 737 Max.
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The company’s Puget Sound-area facilities north of Seattle could start back up by April 20, Boeing said in a statement on Thursday, putting some 27,000 employees back to work in several stages next week.

Production of the 737, 747, 767 and 777 aircraft will resume first, seeing most workers return between April 20 and April 21, while employees building the 787 will get back to work three days later.



Boeing shuttered its Washington plants indefinitely in late March over the coronavirus pandemic, putting thousands of staff out of work for over three weeks. The company later closed its South Carolina factory, suspending the majority of its commercial aircraft production, but has yet to announce plans to reopen that plant.

The problem-plagued 737 Max – grounded worldwide last year after a series of lethal crashes that left 346 people dead – is also set to resume production, despite reports this week that another 150 orders had been cancelled for the troubled airliner in March alone.

A series of technical and safety issues have kept the Max grounded for months, despite repeated optimistic predictions from company executives that it would soon be back in the air.

Deliveries are down across the board for Boeing aircraft this year – largely thanks to the ongoing global pandemic, which has devastated demand for air travel  – with the company stating it delivered only 50 planes in the first quarter of 2020, compared to the 149 in the first quarter of last year.

The health crisis has also forced Boeing to cut production output, some reports suggesting by up to 40 percent, and slash its workforce by some 10 percent. The aircraft manufacturer is now pursuing aid from the federal government, after requesting a $60 billion bailout for the aerospace industry at large.

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2 COMMENTS

  1. Agree. At the very least, Boeing should have been required to issue new stock shares to generate cash (the opposite of buybacks), before seeing any federal bailout money. Once again, privatize the profits, but socialize the losses. This is not capitalism; it’s cronyism in the name of job preservation.

  2. Boeing restart probably deal to initiate shutdown and salvage what they can from airliner production. And they will get big chunk of 60 billion to pay workers as it’s cheaper than unemployment. This area hit hard by Covid 19 nobody condiders it a hoax in Seattle
    , be sure masks PPE social distancing all the stuff
    To keep employees safe on job will be in place and no complainers either.
    I have toured their big plant in Everett north of Seattle it is awesome very clean very huge space there is gigantic underground space to it too underneath the main prodixtion floor so lots of space to keep people infecting each other.
    Boeing no 1 military contractor they do.missles south of Seattle in city of Kent do radar stuff all the hi tech military stuff …the airliner industry sadly probably cooked.
    military contracts 90% of business in future if there is any

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