Boeing's Max9s cleared to resume flight by the FAA

[thewayne]

Good news for Alaska Airlines and United Airlines. Alaska says they're going to resume some of their canceled flights Friday: it takes a little time to notify pilots and crew that they're needed back on the job.

HOWEVER....

"United Airlines chief executive, Scott Kirby, also told CNBC that he is "disappointed".
"The Max 9 grounding is probably the straw that broke the camel's back for us," he said, adding that "we're going to build a plan that doesn't have the [Boeing] Max 10 in it"."

Not that it will happen, but it's been suggested that Boeing should purge ALL McDonnell-Douglas executives that are still in the company and get actual engineers back into important positions. But it won't happen.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68090175

Comments

[moonhare]

The situation makes me happy I'm no longer involved with aerospace companies. When I left (laid off, terminated, right-sized) we had already made the transition to JIT processing (just-in-time) and were relying more and more on vendors' QA systems to assure up-to-specification hardware. Paperwork was examined, some parts would be inspected to some AQL or another, and everything would be hunky-dory. It worked, for the most part. I never had a rejection for anything I was responsible for verifying.

[thewayne]

Hooo, just wait until you read the whistle-blower post I just put up!