Originally Posted by
FrequentSLF
Boeing will get it fixed, it is a worldwide leader on this business. Questions are how much it will cost and when it will be done, more of the first less of the leatest.
they will have a safe product, will not mess around with borderline solutions, they cannot afford it.
I don't know if you have followed the story, but this Gung-Ho attitude is precisely what got us to this position in the first place. Boeing did NOT build a safe product, they DID mess around with a borderline solution - that is why it is grounded. And the same management are still there.
Economic theory says that there are ALWAYS workers available - full employment is never achieved. There will always be a number of people in transition (at least) between jobs. There will also be people entering the labour (labor) market afresh. There will also be a group of people who have left the market but can be brought back in if the remuneration reaches a certain point.
The same. Um … this is aviation engineering, not a burger flipping joint. Look at the difficulty Boeing have had at Charleston with a new workforce compared to Seattle. And these people will need the right licences to work on the aircraft. There aren't many who have Max licences around at the moment, and certainly, of those few, who want to go and live in a company-supplied (always the worst) trailer in inland Washington through the winter. And who can see Mr Cost-Conscious at Boeing, possibly the same one who outsourced the MCAS programming to the low bidder, offering unresistable salaries. No, quotes from "MBAs for Dummies" about "Economic Theory says …" are what got HQ at Chicago into much of this from the start.