AvTalk Episode 290: Boeing brings the battle axe

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🗓️ 18 October 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode of AvTalk, Boeing announces layoffs affecting 17,000 employees and the sunset of the 767 program. The 777X is delayed until at least 2026 and airlines are having trouble getting ahold of aircraft that are already certified. This is leading to some airlines refurbishing already well-worn aircraft and others canceling flights and routes.
The US DOT OIG says the FAA (acronym much?) isn’t capable of effectively regulating Boeing. Sri Lankan investigators are probing a bizarre incident in which the captain allegedly locked the first officer out of the flight deck. And the ARJ21-700 is now the C909.
Helpful links for this week’s episode

* Boeing CEO letter to the company
* US DOT OIG Report on FAA oversigt of Boeing
* ARJ21 > C909

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 290 of Avtoc. I am Ian Petchnick here as always with Jason Urbinoitz. Hello Ian, what's going on?
0:19.3	A lot. It's been a busy week. It's been a busy week. It's been a busy week. Both know with the news and work and everything everything in between
0:28.2	everything in between there's been so much going on and we're here to talk about it.
0:33.0	It's the fall avalanche of news and DOT news and DOT
0:39.2	OIG news and everything in between.
0:41.6	Everything you didn't want here during the summer because you were just too busy now
0:45.5	it's happening.
0:46.5	It is it is.
0:48.5	Okay we've got a big bit of Boeing news, and we'll start with the fact that the machinists are still on strike, which is helpful context for what comes next.
1:01.0	Boeing announced late last week that it is laying off 17,000 people or
1:06.2	approximately 10% of its entire workforce. Along with those what Boeing is
1:12.4	trimming a reduction in force, they also announced that they will continue building and delivering the already ordered 767 freighters, but that program will sunset in
1:25.3	2027, though KC 46 tanker production will continue.
1:30.6	And they also announced, as part of this reduction in force announcement that the triple 7 program will first deliveries should now be expected in 2026.
1:41.3	However, that has nothing to do with the current machinist strike.
1:48.6	No, convenient way to break the news that everyone already knows and every airline has been saying for a long time and in the words of John Ostrauer I think he said if you're an aviation journalist and you are writing that the
2:04.8	Triple 7X is delayed into 2026 because of the strike basically check out now
2:09.6	because you're done.
2:11.0	Yeah, no it's delayed because it hasn't flown since the aircraft was broken and then repaired and then flown back to Seattle.
2:21.0	And it turned out that all of the Triple 7x thrust links were either separated or damaged.
2:27.6	Might have something more to do with it.
2:29.3	Yeah, and the aircraft has not yet been put back into test flights. So that's why it's delayed, but Boeing said,
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