Boeing Commercial Airplanes President and CEO Jim Albaugh and his team are focused on regaining market leadership. To accomplish this, Commercial Airplanes employees are following a game plan that involves seven strategies for getting back to the top -- and staying there.
After some 30 years in the same location, the 767 program has completed a move to its new final assembly bay at the sprawling twin-aisle jetliner plant in Everett, Wash. The relocation, implemented with Lean+, is ripe with opportunity to drive even greater efficiency into 767 production, including tankers for the U.S. Air Force.
Boeing’s 777-200LR, the longest-range jetliner flying today, has allowed Ethiopian Airlines to link two major capital cities -- Addis Ababa and Washington, D.C. -- with nonstop passenger service.