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Senate passes $105bn FAA bill to curb dangerous airplane close calls and improve bad customer service for air travelers
The Senate has passed a $105 billion bill designed to improve safety and customer service for air travelers, a day before the…
After shrugging off a $355 million first-quarter loss, Boeing has to slog through the mud of fresh allegations it retaliated against workers
Fresh off questions about the structural integrity of its airplanes, Boeing is now battling multiple accusations that it shut down…
Ryanair CEO dishes advice to Boeing on managing its crises: ‘Never put a pilot in charge of an airline’
Boeing has weathered passenger deaths in its planes, ongoing safety emergencies, an FAA investigation, frequent Senate hearings and rocky finances…
A Colorado Rockies coach visited the cockpit of a United flight while at 35,000 feet. Now the FAA is investigating
Federal transportation officials are investigating an unauthorized inflight cockpit visit by a coach for the Colorado Rockies baseball team during…
Boeing whistleblower says he was told ‘frankly, to shut up’ after 3 years of raising aircraft quality concerns: ‘This is the hell that I was subjected to’
Boeing quality engineer Sam Salehpour’s managers at Boeing retaliated against him and quashed safety concerns he raised over malfunctioning aircraft…
United took a $200 million hit from Boeing 737 MAX 9 grounding, driving it to a quarterly loss
United Airlines continues to grapple with its strategy in light of the cascading impact of more stringent oversight and subsequent…
Pete Buttigieg says Boeing faces ‘enormous’ scrutiny from FAA as DOJ starts criminal investigation after Alaska Airlines blowout
US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said the Federal Aviation Administration will rigorously assess The Boeing Co. after the blowout of a fuselage section on an Alaska…
Boeing ups employee incentives to build safer planes by tying bonuses to safety and quality goals following Alaska Air scare
The company behind the 737 Max, a plane its own test pilots infamously derided as designed by clowns and supervised by monkeys,…
Boeing is in talks to buy its former unit Spirit AeroSystems and says the move would ‘strengthen aviation safety’
Boeing Co. is in discussions to acquire Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc., a move that would reclaim control of its struggling former aerostructures…
Biden’s FAA chief says ‘current system is not working because it is not delivering safe aircraft,’ wonders ‘what’s going on’ at Boeing
The new chief of the Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday that his agency is midway through a review of manufacturing…