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Ladies and gentlemen, it's now safe to move about the cabin of your domestically made, mid-sized commercial aircraft.

From American public media, November the 5th. Good as always to have you along, everybody.

59% was the winning margin. Speaking here, of course, of the vote by the International Association

of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, accepting Boeing's most recent contract offer, which means

they can get back to work as soon as this week, which the company will be more than happy to

have happened because there is no shortage of work to do. The plane maker reported a backlog of

more than 6,000 planes earlier this fall,

and that is not just a Boeing problem. Airbus, the other big commercial aircraft maker on this planet,

has a similarly ginormous backlog. Marketplaces Henry Epkins gets us going with the aviation

industry's backups. Boeing's turbulent year started with that door plug blowout back in January, after which

the federal government limited the company's capacity to build new planes.

But there are underlying factors that have made everything a lot harder, going back to surprise

the pandemic.

After the pandemic, actually, we observe a huge demand increase in both air freight and passenger

site.

Fakri Karanke is an assistant professor at Purdue University.

As airlines saw more demand to carry people and things post-pandemic, they ordered more planes.

The problem was...

COVID really did incredible damage to the highly technical aerospace and defense manufacturing

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