Originally Posted by
melmothtw
So, 'One Boeing' only when it suits them then.
Hey, it all depends on how you define "One Boeing". And as an FYI, "One Boeing" does NOT mean one pay scale, one retirement program, or even one set of company holidays. Pay scales vary hugely by region and country. The commercial group (legacy Boeing) has a different retirement program than the defense group (legacy McDonnel Douglas). And here in San Antonio we get fewer company paid holidays than they do in Seattle (commercial) or in St Louis (defense). Further, the notion that technical problems in Seattle with a commercial derivative program (an airliner turned into an aerial tanker with a whole host of other non tanker related functions) somehow must mean problems in St Louis with a clean sheet design of a pure tanker drone is (I'm sorry, there's just no polite way of saying this) simply absurd.