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2025-08-15Boeing interfered with electric plane startup Zunum, appeals court finds
An artist’s rendering from 2018 of Zunum’s concept hybrid-electric commuter airplanes. (Courtesy of Zunum Aero) By Lauren Rosenblatt Seattle Times business reporter Boeing may again be on the hook for allegedly stealing trade secrets from Bothell-based electric airplane startup Zunum Aero. Zunum, which folded in 2019, sued Boeing a year after its closure, accusing the plane -
2025-06-02Editorial: Chicago didn’t ruin Boeing, but the company paid a price for moving out of Seattle.
By The Editorial Board | Chicago Tribune Seattle and Boeing were together for decades until Chicago came along. But after the company moved its headquarters from a cloudy city to a windy one, it struggled. Was it us? The deep-dish pizza and Italian beef? The ongoing wait for another Super Bowl title? As this iconic aerospace giant -
2025-01-12Superstar engineer John Hart-Smith skewered Boeing’s strategy | Obituary
By Dominic Gates Seattle Times aerospace reporter More than two decades ago, aerospace engineer John Hart-Smith, then already a world-renowned expert on designing aircraft structures, gained fame beyond his field when he warned Boeing management that its shortsighted financial focus would be ruinous. In an internal Boeing presentation in 2001, and in essays written with hilariously -
2024-12-08
Saving Boeing is the hardest job and biggest opportunity in business
Dec. 8, 2024 at 6:00 am Updated Dec. 8, 2024 at 6:00 am 1 of 2 | Boeing 737 MAX fuselages sent from Spirit AeroSystems in Wichita for final assembly in Renton piled up on train cars in a rail yard just south of the stadiums in SODO during the Machinists strike that ended last -
2024-11-04Boeing Machinists approve new contract, ending strike
By Lauren Rosenblatt , Dominic Gates , Paige Cornwell and Alex Halverson Seattle Times staff reporters The Boeing strike is over after 53 days. Machinists union members voted Monday to approve the company’s most recent contract offer, enabling Boeing to restart work at assembly plants in Everett and Renton and at parts plants throughout the -
2024-10-12Hold The Line Protest
A man holding a megaphone and an orange sign reading 'HOLD THE LINE!' pickets outside a Boeing facility, visible by the Boeing logo on a building in the background. This appears to be a labor strike action by Boeing workers. -
2024-10-11
Boeing to cut 10% of workforce, stop most 767 production amid strike
Boeing will lay off 10% of its workforce in the coming months and cut its commercial jet production amid a month-old strike that has left the company burning through cash as its factories sit idle. By Lauren Rosenblatt, Alex Halverson and Paige Cornwell Seattle Times staff reporters The company said Friday it would end production of its Everett-built 767 -
2024-08-25
Inside Boeing’s factory lapses that led to the Alaska Air blowout
By Dominic Gates and Paige Cornwell Seattle Times staff reporters The near-catastrophic midair blowout of a door-sized fuselage panel on an Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 in January was caused by two distinct manufacturing errors by different crews on successive days last fall in Boeing’s assembly plant in Renton. The first manufacturing lapse occurred within -
2024-08-08See how new Boeing chief Kelly Ortberg’s pay compares with WA’s best-paid CEOs
By Alex Halverson Seattle Times business reporter Newly appointed Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg has the chance to reach a $22 million compensation package next year, which could make him one of Washington’s highest-paid CEOs. Ortberg, who started in the job Thursday, will also receive compensation for the remainder of 2024. He’ll receive a cash payment -
2024-07-29Materials used in 787 body
Infographic showing materials used in the Boeing 787 body, including fiberglass, aluminum, carbon laminate composite, carbon sandwich composite, and aluminum/steel/titanium. A pie chart shows total materials by weight: composites 50%, aluminum 20%, titanium 15%, steel 10%, other 5%; noting the 777 uses 12% composites and 50% aluminum by comparison.