Boeing’s #1 problem is not that they lack a culture of accountability.
It’s that they *hate unions* and *hate criticism.* So many of Boeing's major actions in the last 20, even 30 years have had to do with their attempts to break unions and escape political pressure in Washington State. The payoff is pressing workers without enough training, denigrating and overruling the work of union employees, and outsourcing work to avoid increasing union employment. This has cost them $10s of billions.
There's an inherent tension here.
The subcontractor's business plan is not the same as the actual plan. As with the actual plan, the main plan of the subcontractor is to divert money from execution of the actual plan.
Airline plan is "operate aircraft affordably safe enough to sell tickets," different from Boeing plan "affordably safe enough to sell airplanes.).
Everything but money is secondary. Financiers prioritize
money above all and aviation is financialized.
Better articulated, more deeply explored.
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(I've a person close to me who took early retirement as a senior avionics software engineer because of the growing financial stink of Boeing. It's been a horrible process to watch.)
Glenn Fleishman
Doug Bostrom