CEO Boeing Kelly Ortberg On Wednesday, he said he would work on protecting the rotation of the aerospace giant from the impact of the trade war between the United States and trading partners, especially in China.
On the eve of the quarterly message about the income of Ortberg, he sent a letter to Boeing staff, which outlines the company’s progress on four areas of his recovery plan, which included comments on how trade disputes may affect the company.
“While we are watching the development of the world trade closely, our strong beginning of the year, combined with the demand for planes and our backlog for our products and services, gives us the flexibility needed to focus on this environment,” Ortberg wrote.
During the request for a question about the capture and answered, Artberg said to the analysts: “I feel very good in our general plan of the year, though I expect that I expect Chinese situation I will take away the part of the stock we created with our strong deliveries first. “
China begins to return to us Boeing planes
The Boeing CEO of Boeing Ortberg testifies to the Committee on Trade, Science and Transport on Production Quality on April 2, 2025. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)
Ortberg said China is the only country where Boeing has faced problems with the supply of planes from the Trump administration, although he noted that the company monitors potential revenge on Europe and regularly contacts the White House.
“I don’t think the day goes to where we do not participate with someone in the administration, including … the secretaries of the cabinet and the Potus itself,” Ortberg said with reference to the president Donald Trump.
| Ticket | Safety | Last | Variation | Change % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BA | Boeing Co. | 172,59 | +10.23 |
+6.30% |
Boeing pays 10% import tax from countries such as Japan and Italy, though it expects to return some of these costs when Aircraft are exported.
The CEO Boeing says the company does not yet increase production, promises to “do it correctly”
On March 28, 2025, the Chinese eastern airline Boeing 777 was shown at the Los -Angeles International Airport. (Kevin Carter/Getti Image)
In Comments on CNBCOrtberg said China had sent two of the three planes in the country that were ready for delivery because the Chinese government stopped taking these aircraft from a trade dispute. This year, Boeing send approximately 50 planes to China, but Ortberg said the company would be “rather pragmatic” about how it approaches sales to China during the dispute.
“For those aircraft that have not yet been built, we will seek them to redirect them to other customers,” Ortberg said. “For built aircraft, we call it a remarket. There are many customers looking for Max planes.”
This species shows Boeing 737 Max Fuselages on railway vehicles on a train in Seattle on December 5, 2024. (Reuters/Matt Mills MCKnight)
In 2024 Boeing fought Problems with the quality of the manufactureThe 737 Max, as well as the strike that influenced its production at the end of last year, which has pushed the regulators.
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Ortberg said the company is working on cautiously increasing production Boeing 737 Max This year, planes calling it a “key to creating cash” and added that Boeing also hopes to conduct more flights to its problem program Starliner Space at the end of this year.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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