Tag: Boeing

• Friday, January 8th 2021 - 07:53 UTC

  Boeing will pay US$ 2,5bn to resolve investigation related to the 737 MAX crashes

  

  Boeing Co will pay over US$ 2.5 billion to resolve a U.S. investigation into criminal conspiracy charges related to two deadly 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people, the Justice Department said, but the plane maker will not be required to plead guilty.

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• Thursday, August 6th 2020 - 09:24 UTC

  Brazil's aircraft manufacturer Embraer, reports losses of US$ 315 million

  

  Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer reported second-quarter losses of US$ 315 million on Wednesday, as sales plunged due to the coronavirus pandemic and a proposed joint venture with Boeing collapsed.

• Wednesday, July 15th 2020 - 08:24 UTC

  Boeing customers cancelled order for 355 of 737 MAX jets in first half of 2020

  

  Boeing customers cancelled orders for 355 of its 737 MAX jets in the first half of 2020, the US planemaker said on Tuesday, as the damage done by the jet's grounding and the coronavirus crisis to the airline industry continued to mount.

• Saturday, July 4th 2020 - 07:32 UTC

  Brazil's Embraer union files lawsuit against the company's board over the collapsed deal with Boeing

  

  A union representing workers at planemaker Embraer filed a lawsuit on Friday seeking to dismiss the company's board, after a US$4.2 billion deal with Boeing Co collapsed amid the pandemic, leaving the Brazilian jet-maker scrambling for a new path forward.

• Tuesday, June 30th 2020 - 07:39 UTC

  Norwegian Air Shuttle cancels purchase of 97 jets from Boeing

  

  Norwegian Air Shuttle has notified Boeing that it is terminating purchase agreements for all 97 of its remaining jets on order with the US planemaker. The decision covers 92 of Boeing's 737 Max planes, five 787 Dreamliners and a related maintenance pact, Norwegian said in a statement on Monday.

• Tuesday, June 2nd 2020 - 08:51 UTC

  Boeing confirms elimination of 12,000 US jobs, and more in “coming months”

  

  Boeing confirmed it was eliminating more than 12,000 US jobs, including 6,770 involuntary layoffs, as the largest US planemaker restructures in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. Boeing also disclosed it plans “several thousand remaining layoffs” in the coming months but did not say where those would take place.

• Thursday, May 14th 2020 - 07:36 UTC

  Brazil's Gol Airlines recovers US$ 412 million compensation from Boeing

  

  Brazil airline Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes said on Wednesday it will receive a total of 2.4 billion reais (US$412.03 million) from Boeing Co as compensation for the grounding of the 737 MAX plane, which has not flown in over a year.

• Monday, April 27th 2020 - 07:45 UTC

  Collapse of Boeing deal plunges Brazilian plane maker Embraer into an uncertain future

  

  Brazilian planemaker Embraer SA has been thrust into an uncertain future with no immediate plan B, while not ruling out seeking a bailout after Boeing Co jettisoned a US$ 4.2 billion commercial aerospace tie-up amid the coronavirus crisis.

• Saturday, January 11th 2020 - 08:48 UTC

  Boeing's fired CEO will receive US$ 62 million in stock awards and pension benefits

  

  Boeing Co's ousted chief executive officer, Dennis Muilenburg, stands to receive US$62 million in long-term incentive, stock awards and pension benefits, but forfeited US$14.6 million and will receive no severance, the planemaker said in a regulatory filing on Friday.

• Tuesday, January 7th 2020 - 09:04 UTC

  American Airlines reaches agreement with Boeing on the 737 MAX grounding

  

  American Airlines on Monday became the latest carrier to reach an agreement with Boeing on compensation to cover the financial losses connected to the 737 MAX grounding, which caused thousands of flights to be canceled.