Boeing is chopping 10 p.c of its workforce

Group,

Our enterprise is in a tough place, and it’s exhausting to overstate the challenges we face collectively. Past navigating our present surroundings, restoring our firm requires powerful choices and we must make structural adjustments to make sure we will keep aggressive and ship for our prospects over the long run.

We should be clear-eyed in regards to the work we face and sensible in regards to the time it’ll take to realize key milestones on the trail to restoration. We additionally must focus our sources on performing and innovating within the areas which are core to who we’re, reasonably than spreading ourselves throughout too many efforts that may usually end in underperformance and underinvestment.

With that in thoughts, right now I’m sharing some tough choices and several other program updates: 

On the 777X program, the challenges we have now confronted in growth, in addition to from the flight check pause and ongoing work stoppage, will delay our program timeline. We’ve notified prospects that we now anticipate first supply in 2026.

We plan to construct and ship the remaining 767 Freighters ordered by our prospects after which conclude manufacturing of the industrial program in 2027. Manufacturing for the KC-46A Tanker will proceed.

In BDS, our efficiency on fixed-price growth packages is solely not the place it must be. We anticipate substantial new losses in BDS this quarter, pushed by the work stoppage on industrial derivatives, continued program challenges and our determination to finish manufacturing on the 767 freighter. I shall be offering further oversight of this enterprise and these packages.

Together with the above actions, we should additionally reset our workforce ranges to align with our monetary actuality and to a extra centered set of priorities. Over the approaching months, we’re planning to cut back the scale of our whole workforce by roughly 10 p.c. These reductions will embrace executives, managers and workers. Subsequent week, your management staff will share extra tailor-made details about what this implies on your group. Primarily based on this determination, we won’t proceed with the following cycle of furloughs. 

As we transfer by means of this course of, we’ll preserve our steadfast deal with security, high quality and delivering for our prospects. We all know these choices will trigger issue for you, your households and our staff, and I sincerely want we might keep away from taking them. Nevertheless, the state of our enterprise and our future restoration require powerful actions.

We shall be clear with you concerning the timing and impression of those steps, and we shall be skilled and supportive to everybody alongside the best way. 

Thanks for all that you’re doing by means of this very difficult time at Boeing. We are going to navigate by means of this second. We are going to re-focus our firm, and we’ll restore belief with all those that rely on us.

Kelly