NEED TO KNOW in light of the Boeing Machinists union rejection of the contract extension. Dominic Gates Seattle Times If... Boeing takes the 777X elsewhere, its massive Everett plant — the largest building by volume in the world, where the company employs approximately 39,000 people — could be half empty in just eight years. The 747 jumbo jet, which isn’t selling well, will likely end production long before then. Production of the current 777 would end soon after 777X enters service around 2020. That would leave in Everett only the Air Force tanker, built at a rate of only one per month, and the 787 Dreamliner — an airplane also built in South Carolina. Such a scenario would rapidly compress the schedule for what pessimists have long predicted: Boeing’s gradual exit from Washington state.
Posted on: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 16:33:42 +0000
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