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Re:Boeing gearing up for 787 move to South Carolina by bilbo0s on Monday September 21, 2020 @10:16PM (#24550246)
Not only Qatar, the US Navy was not accepting those either since a while back. Don't know if that ever changed.
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Re:Boeing gearing up for 787 move to South Carolina by throw0101a on Monday September 21, 2020 @10:42PM (#24550381)
> Not only Qatar, the US Navy was not accepting those either since a while back.

The whole KC-46 tanker program is quite the mess as well:

* https://www.defensenews.com/air/2020/03/31/the-air-forces-kc...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_KC-46_Pegasus

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Re:Boeing gearing up for 787 move to South Carolina by bilbo0s on Monday September 21, 2020 @11:41PM (#24550615)
At what point do you start to wonder if this level of mismanagement is purposeful? The number of flaws across multiple different programs. (Serious flaws no less.) The number of management missteps. It just feels almost like either a purposeful tanking, or the sort of slow motion, but accelerating, collapse that happens when you've filled every level of an organization with less than able people.
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Re:Boeing gearing up for 787 move to South Carolina by jen729w on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @02:30AM (#24551531)
To what end?
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Re:Boeing gearing up for 787 move to South Carolina by mschuster91 on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @07:37AM (#24553312)
Upper management whose KPI are solely on base of profit make a couple of big fat paychecks over the year as ever more and more is gutted. Now that the dung pile has grown so big that it touches the ceiling fan, that guard of beancounter managers has long moved on to other companies to raze...
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