Originally Posted by
Gipsy Queen
it is a remarkably crass statement made at a time when Boeing cannot afford any more
PR disasters.
I must be reading a different article.
Of the three quotes attributed to Calhoun
"We have asked the team to step back and reassess our commercial product development strategy to determine what family of airplanes will be needed in the future."
"This is a decision [that] me and our new commercial aircraft leader wanted to make. We will not design our next airplane on the basis of the A321. I know where the NMA is targeted now. I want to be sure I understand everything about the widebody, narrowbody world."
"I want to make sure we have an airplane [specification] that I believe in. As soon as we come to a [specification] on what we want to do, we will move forward very quickly."
I can't see anything that can remotely be described as "crass".