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Boeing Considering Selling Seattle Headquarters
Boeing has confirmed that the company is looking at not having a brick and mortar head office at all and embracing the mobility that comes with going to work by flipping up a screen. (www.seattletimes.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Certainly the political climate in Washington state is a factor, but the leadership and decision making at the top of Boeing is likely the root cause of the company's poor performance. They lost focus years ago when they failed to match airbus moves and misread the market. Airbus made mistakes as well but was able to alter course, Boeing on the other hand was slow to react, cut corners and lost focus on the civilian side of manufacturing, which was exactly what happened to McDonald-Douglass and Convair among others. Building aircraft is a very tough business and if you are not at the top of your game you lose, downsize and chase the government/military market.
Excellent, get away from that communist kleptocracy.
Understandable. Why would any company want to set up shop in the anarchist state of Washington?
Thank you Governor Insley.
This could be a good thing. That they are looking world wide to cut costs should be a warning if one looks at it properly. While some believe that using global resources to build everything and anything, one needs to remember that if final assembly of anything is in the US, shipping costs of everything can get expensive shipping via air or ship, verses just across a state via truck or train, or a combination thereof.
It would be cheaper to ship via train a fuselage body from Arizona than from BFE China. There is no need to make expensive modifications to aircraft to fly small sections of said fuselage back to the US. Closing warehouses and offices in far flung reaches of the planet and save money by doing such in-house.
It would be cheaper to ship via train a fuselage body from Arizona than from BFE China. There is no need to make expensive modifications to aircraft to fly small sections of said fuselage back to the US. Closing warehouses and offices in far flung reaches of the planet and save money by doing such in-house.
Boeing gets such a discount in shipping you would not believe the numbers! Not to mention that I am sure they figure out some way to get someone else to pay for it..