{"id":2070,"date":"2018-02-14T07:33:45","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T13:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=2070"},"modified":"2018-02-14T07:33:45","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T13:33:45","slug":"boeing-is-killing-it-by-squeezing-its-suppliers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=2070","title":{"rendered":"Boeing Is Killing It by Squeezing Its Suppliers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So much goes into the development of a commercial aircraft\u2014billions of dollars, millions of work hours, rivers of sweat\u2014that when a new model is finished, the designers like to throw a party. At the Boeing rollout of the 777 in April 1994, an event orchestrated by Dick Clark Productions, music swelled while the slogan \u201cWorking Together\u201d appeared on a 285-foot screen before thousands of employees gathered at the doors of a massive hangar in Everett, Wash. The phrase was the organizing principle of Boeing\u2019s engineering team and even the name of the first airplane, painted in cursive under the cockpit window. \u201cBecause we realized,\u201d a narrator intoned, \u201cthat only by working together as a team\u2014with our customers, our suppliers, and each other\u2014would we build a truly great airplane.\u201d Boeing extended its embrace of globalism with its next airplane, the 787 Dreamliner, introduced in 2011, relying on a far-flung network of suppliers that not only built but also designed many of the parts.<\/p>\n<p>Click the link below for the full story!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2018-02-14\/boeing-is-killing-it-by-squeezing-its-suppliers?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bd&amp;utm_campaign=headline&amp;cmpId=yhoo.headline&amp;yptr=yahoo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boeing is killing it<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2071\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/boeing_777x-300x79.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"791\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/boeing_777x-300x79.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/boeing_777x-768x202.jpg 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/boeing_777x-1024x269.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/boeing_777x.jpg 1143w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 791px) 100vw, 791px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So much goes into the development of a commercial aircraft\u2014billions of dollars, millions of work hours, rivers of sweat\u2014that when a new model is finished, the designers like to throw a party. At the Boeing rollout of the 777 in April 1994, an event orchestrated by Dick Clark Productions, music swelled while the slogan \u201cWorking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[45,376,269,205,560,42,47,41,52,274,446,168,46],"class_list":["post-2070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-news","tag-45","tag-376","tag-269","tag-205","tag-777x","tag-42","tag-airbus","tag-boeing","tag-bombardier","tag-canada","tag-china","tag-embraer","tag-max"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2072,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070\/revisions\/2072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}