Just a quick heads up before we get started today. There's a little swearing in this episode.

Okay, you've been warned.

On Thursday, March 7th, the Trade Group Airlines for America held a board meeting in Washington, D.C.

The group represents the big passenger airlines in the U.S. and some of the cargo carriers.

And one of the major topics of this meeting was,

what are we going to do about Boeing?

That's John Ostrower, the editor-in-chief of the website The Air Current. At the meeting, John

says, the CEOs of American Airlines, United, Southwest, and Alaska talked about

the Boeing problem. They wanted to find a way to move forward with where Boeing is today.

And they wanted to, the CEOs put their heads the other, they said they said, how do we understand what the path forward is for Boeing?

And I don't think going into that meeting,

they wanted to force the board and the CEO and the head of Boeing commercial to leave. I think what they

wanted to do was seek clarity about how Boeing was going to move forward from the board directors without the presence of the CEO.

And they had a pretty choice description of what they wanted.

In talking to one long time very knowledgeable senior industry leader,

to put it this way.

They didn't want to get the defensive bullshit. They wanted the board to

hear it directly through them."

quote end quote.

That meant a conversation with the board without CEO Dave Calhoun.

Because what happened on Alaska flight 1282 when a loose door plug caused an explosive

decompression was just one incident in a long list of concerns these CEOs had.

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