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https://www.npr.org/2019/12/17/788775642/boeing-will-temporarily-stop-making-its-737-max-jetliners
Production will stop in January. The jets were grounded after two crashes that killed nearly 350 people. Despite being grounded, Boeing continued cranking the planes out at its factory near Seattle.
(The interview had more good information, but at time of submission, the transcript wasn't available. There may be better articles out there.)
There are. Here's one:
Boeing will suspend 737 Max production in January at CNBC:
Boeing is planning to suspend production of its beleaguered 737 Max planes next month, the company said Monday, a drastic step after the Federal Aviation Administration said its review of the planes would continue into next year, dashing the manufacturer's forecast.
Boeing's decision to temporarily shut down production, made after months of a cash-draining global grounding of its best-selling aircraft, worsens one of the most severe crises in the history of the century-old manufacturer. It is ramping up pressure on CEO Dennis Muilenburg, whom the board stripped of his chairmanship in October as the crisis wore on.
The measure is set to ripple through the aerospace giant's supply chain and broader economy. It also presents further problems for airlines, which have lost hundreds of millions of dollars and canceled thousands of flights without the fuel-efficient planes in their fleets.
Boeing said it does not plan to lay off or furlough workers at the Renton, Washington, factory where the 737 Max is produced during the production pause. Some of the 12,000 workers there will be temporarily reassigned.
Previously:
Boeing's 737 Max Troubles Deepen, Taking Airlines, Suppliers With It
Review of 737 Max Certification Finds Fault With Boeing and F.A.A.
American Airlines Says It Will Resume Flights With Boeing’s 737 Max Jets in January
AP Sources: Boeing Changing 737 Max Software to Use 2 Computers
Boeing Falsified Records for 787 Jet Sold to Air Canada
Boeing Pledges $100M to Families of 737 Max Crash Victims
Capt. 'Sully' Sullenberger and Boeing 737 Max News
Boeing’s Own Test Pilots Lacked Key Details Of 737 Max Flight-Control System
Boeing CEO Defends 737 Max Flight Control System
Analysis: Why FAA-Approved Emergency Procedures Failed to Save ET302
Initial Findings Put Boeing's Software at Center of Ethiopian 737 Crash
Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 Max Flight Makes Emergency Landing (While Carrying No Passengers)
Airline Cancels $4.9 Billion Boeing 737 MAX Order; Doomed Planes Lacked Optional Safety Features
Pilot Who Hitched a Ride Saved Lion Air 737 Day Before Deadly Crash
DoJ Issues Subpoenas in 737 Max Investigation
Boeing 737 Max Aircraft Grounded in the U.S. and Dozens of Other Countries
Second 737 MAX8 Airplane Crash Reinforces Speculation on Flying System Problems
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Tuesday December 17 2019, @11:54PM (1 child)
It is already legal and to some extent done by PACs, the difference between this and PACs is that PACs support the candidate without giving them money directly where as I am suggesting using PAC (or something similar) to make direct contribution for cause. Currently any single person or PAC or Corp can donate their limit toward a cause directly to an elected official's campaign, they are already buying votes. Be they corporate like Boeing or private like Koch or Soros. All you are doing different is a group of non-wealthy people are getting together to pool their money and pay a politician for a specific issue. If me and five people want our congressmen to be aggressive toward Boeing, nothing stops us from each pooling 2k and sending it to her with a letter telling them how important you feel X issue is.
So your complaints are valid, but what you are complaining about we already have
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday December 18 2019, @12:18AM
And you are so happy with it that you want more of the same?
Instead of getting away from the "corporation buying voting influence", you maybe want to take one more step into the insanity and get to, e.g., "corporations casting votes" as a preliminary step towards "wealth/class based suffrage"**?
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** (you already have a bit of that: it's highly unlikely that the US homeless can actually cast votes [howstuffworks.com], even if they are theoretically entitled. So, one only needs to get enough Americans homeless and the defacto "wealth based suffrage" is done without modifications of the current laws).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford