...wait for the lay-off notice or seek alternate employment now. No need to quit, if you do find alternate employment (and it most likely won’t be flying) then ask for a Leave of Absence, which I’m sure the company would be more than happy to oblige. I realize that finding employment elsewhere is e...

Hertz filed for bankruptcy in US and Canada this weekend. Numbers. That is what economic performance is about, and Hertz simply didn't have the financial numbers or the forecast of the financial numbers to do otherwise. So where is Air Canada in that regard? Although Air Canada reports that it has n...

Boeing Orders Slip Below 5,000 On MAX Cancellations Boeing Co. BA -2.76% said Tuesday that its jetliner order book slipped below 5,000 for the first time in seven years as customers canceled more deals for 737 MAX jets. The aerospace giant scrubbed another 108 MAX jets from its backlog and downgrad...

Boeing CEO tells NBC that pandemic is ‘likely’ to put a major U.S. airline out of business Boeing’s president and CEO, David Calhoun, acknowledged during an NBC News interview with “Today” host Savannah Guthrie that a major U.S. airline will “most likely” go out of business due to fallout from the ...

From today's Washington Post: Boeing plans to slash 10 percent of its workforce amid pandemic fallout, Max grounding The aerospace giant was once a Wall Street darling. Twin forces continue to hammer the company’s bottom line. Boeing said Wednesday it plans a 10 percent staff reduction — more than 1...

From today's New York Post: Boeing faces criminal probe of 737 MAX assembly line Federal prosecutors are reportedly probing potentially dangerous missteps in the production of Boeing’s 737 MAX jet, adding to intense scrutiny of the troubled planemaker. Both the US Department of Justice and the Feder...

From today's Washington Post: Boeing backs out of Embraer merger Boeing has terminated a long-planned $4.2 billion deal with the Brazilian aerospace manufacturer Embraer after negotiations broke down shortly before a Friday night deadline, the company announced Saturday. The move comes as a global a...

From the Wall Street Journal: Boeing Suspends Dividend to Save Cash Amid Coronavirus Crisis CEO David Calhoun and Chairman Larry Kellner to forgo pay through end of 2020 “Boeing is drawing on all of its resources to sustain operations, support its workforce and customers, and maintain supply-chain c...

I suspect that everyone here was hired after the last "force majeure" event that affected Air Canada pilots (1976 ATC bilingualism shutdown). It was called "off-duty status without pay," and was used to bypass the contractual requirements for lay-offs by reverse seniority, given the impossibility of...

Crisis creates opportunity. That's why this thread jumped out at me. It's why I'm posting for the first time in months. Whether you've been laid off yet or not, you probably have way more free time than you've ever had before. I hope to use it to learn something. One of the opportunities that I ove...

Two perspectives, in song: First, from the Byrds: To everything turn, turn, turn There is a season turn, turn, turn And a time to every purpose Under heaven... Second, from Frank Sinatra: So I'm down and so I'm out But so are many others So I feel like tryin' to hide My head 'neath these covers Life...

Ray, should you be mixing NG problems with MAX problems on this thread? This news is a little more relevant. Great article. Very relevant. Good catch. Regarding non-Max issues, when I started this thread I was interested in the entire factors surrounding Boeing's history, management, strategy, gove...

From Today's Honolulu Star Advertiser: Canadian Flight Attendant Covid-19 Positive in Maui: Coronavirus cases in Hawaii grow to 7 The number of coronavirus cases in Hawaii has grown to seven, but none of them appear to be the result of the virus spreading in the community, Gov. David Ige said at a n...

From today's Wall Street Journal: FAA Considers Enhanced Inspections After Southwest Jet Suffers Structural Problem Crack in fuselage during flight prompts reassessment of maintenance checks for certain Boeing 737 models U.S. air-safety officials are investigating potential structural problems affec...

From today's Wall Street Journal: Two FAA Officials Are Key Witnesses in Criminal Probe of Ex-Boeing Pilot Federal aviation staffers dealt with Mark Forkner on pilot-training requirements as part of approval process Federal authorities are seeking to build a criminal case against a former Boeing Co....

From CNBC today: AC Cancels orders for 11 Aircraft: Boeing 737 Max cancellations pile up in bleak start to the year Boeing reported Wednesday that it logged more commercial aircraft cancellations than new orders in February, marking a bleak start to the year for the manufacturer already reeling from...

Here is the official report: House Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure The Boeing 737 Max Aircraft: Costs, consequences, and Lessons from its Design, Development, and Certification Preliminary Investigative Findings Prepared by the Democratic Staff of the House Committee on Transportation a...

From the Guardian: Boeing's 'culture of concealment' led to fatal 737 Max crashes, report finds Preliminary findings conclude Boeing ‘jeopardized the safety of the flying public’ in its attempts to get Max approved by regulators A “culture of concealment”, cost cutting and “grossly insufficient” ove...

From today's Washington Post: NASA shows it’s lost confidence in Boeing’s ability to police its own work on Starliner space capsule The space agency will embed software experts alongside Boeing’s engineers to increase oversight In the initial days and weeks after Boeing’s test flight of its new spac...

Today, from Reuters: FAA administrator: Boeing 737 MAX certification flight could come within 'a few weeks' WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Federal Aviation Administration chief Stephen Dickson said on Thursday he thinks a certification test flight for the Boeing 737 MAX - a key milestone for the return...