Boeing’s business is a mess, following two plane crashes in 2018-19 and a string of safety scares. The aerospace manufacturer has not received a single 737 Max order in two months. The FAA has imposed a production go-slow on safety grounds. The share price is down 60%. And the departing CEO Dave Calhoun was hauled before Congress earlier this week to apologise for the 346 deaths he acknowledged the company was responsible for. What can Mr Calhoun’s eventual successor do to bring Boeing out of its nosedive?
Hosts: Alice Fulwood, Tom Lee-Devlin, and Mike Bird. Guests: Ed Pierson, founder of the Foundation for Aviation Safety; Peter Robison, author of “Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing”; Ron Epstein, an aerospace and defence analyst at Bank of America; and The Economist’s Simon Wright.
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