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"Boeing is in trouble this time!" Merkel gloated. He had just received the latest news from Airbus headquarters that a large-scale workers' strike had taken place at Boeing's Long Beach plant in California.

The Long Beach factory in California was a factory specially set up by the original McDonnell Douglas to produce MD95 aircraft. After Boeing annexed McDonnell Douglas, McDonnell Douglas's other aircraft models were produced by Boeing because they competed with Boeing's products.

The company stopped production, and only the MD95 was changed to the Boeing 717 by Boeing and continued to be produced at the Long Beach plant in California.

Although Boeing successfully obtained airworthiness certificates for the Boeing 717 in the United States and Europe, put it into operation in 1999, and received a lot of orders, the overall situation was not what Boeing initially expected.

It is as optimistic as one thinks. The products of two regional airliner manufacturers, Bombardier Aerospace and Embraer, are competing fiercely with it. Of course, Airbus's A318 can also be considered one of the competitors.

After the June 28 Incident, Boeing was involved, which not only caused Boeing's shares to plummet, but also the world's major airlines, in order to cut costs, reduced routes and grounded aircraft, and many companies also revised their policies.

The disruption to the aircraft ordering plan has also resulted in prominent order cancellations and delayed pickups. It is said that hundreds of large aircraft have been delayed in delivery. This has undoubtedly caused huge pressure on Boeing's finances.

So Boeing's board of directors decided on July 1 that not only were all plans for employee salary increases originally scheduled for this year to be cancelled, but also that employees' salary levels would be lowered. As soon as the news came out, it immediately caused concern among labor unions and employees at Boeing.

There is widespread dissatisfaction. Among them, employees of the former McDonnell Douglas plant in Long Beach, California, reacted the most strongly, so a large-scale workers' strike broke out yesterday, demanding that Boeing Company give a salary increase as originally promised. This strike is serious

It has seriously affected the assembly work of Boeing 717 aircraft at Boeing's Long Beach plant in California.

This strike has stimulated the Boeing Board of Directors. It is said that the Boeing Board of Directors is in emergency consultations and is preparing to lay off 20,000 to 30,000 people by the end of this year, accounting for approximately one-fifth to one-third of Boeing's total employees!

Boeing's approach is undoubtedly a way to significantly reduce expenditures on employee compensation, but it also has hidden dangers. Such large-scale layoffs will undoubtedly affect the lives of tens of thousands of American families and have a negative impact on local society.

Stability has an impact, and once the economic situation improves in the future, Boeing will undoubtedly have a lot of trouble when it recruits people again. This is why the Boeing Board of Directors first considered not layoffs, but salary cuts. But Boeing's Long Beach plant in California

This behavior of workers angered Boeing's board of directors.

Merkel can understand the idea of ​​​​the Boeing board of directors to cut off the chaos quickly. At present, it is just a riot among workers at Boeing's Long Beach plant in California. If it cannot be calmed down quickly, then I am afraid that the workers at the Seattle plant will also become restless.

And when that time comes, things will be even more difficult to deal with! As for the negative impact that layoffs will bring to the company, there is only the lesser of two evils. In fact, Airbus is also currently planning to lay off employees, but it is not the same as Boeing.

In comparison, their situation is much better, so the number of layoffs is estimated to be no more than 2,000.

At 9 o'clock local time on July 7, the American Boeing Company officially announced publicly that due to the June 28 terrorist attacks, major airlines that are Boeing's major customers believe that in the future, international transportation business will

There will be a general shrinkage, and the U.S. air transport industry is likely to shrink by 20%! Therefore, the demand for passenger aircraft by major airlines will also be significantly reduced. Therefore, Boeing has to make a regrettable decision to

In 2002, 15,000 employees were laid off across the company!

The Board of Directors of Boeing Company has repeatedly emphasized that this is a necessary and helpless rapid response of Boeing Company to the drastic changes in the current business environment. Boeing Company will do its best to provide appropriate compensation to those employees who have been laid off. But at the same time,

It is clearly stated that this is the first time Boeing has laid off employees in response to this crisis, but it will not be the last.

Boeing's board of directors will decide whether to conduct the second or third layoffs based on the actual economic development and recovery of the international aviation industry!

Because according to Boeing's own predictions, the decline in the civil aircraft manufacturing and aviation industries is likely to last until 2004 before getting better.

Finally, Boeing stated that it will work closely with the U.S. government on air transportation safety issues to strengthen technical guarantees for the safe flight of civilian passenger aircraft in order to restore consumer confidence in the air transportation industry as soon as possible.

The news immediately caused an uproar around the world. Although everyone knows that the June 28 terrorist attacks have dealt a heavy blow to the international aviation industry and the civil aircraft manufacturing industry, laymen do not know the intensity of the blow.

But Boeing's layoff plan clearly puts the weakness of the international aviation industry and the civil aircraft manufacturing industry on the table. People would think that even an industry leader like Boeing, an industry giant in the civil aircraft manufacturing industry,

They all had to lay off so many employees, so wouldn’t the situation of other companies be even worse?

Just twelve hours after Boeing announced the news, Airbus also publicly announced that due to major airlines' demand for passenger aircraft will decline in the future, in order to better face the increasing

Due to the severe business environment, Airbus decided to lay off 1,000 employees at the end of 2002.

"Damn European guy!" Motyjunas, who returned to Japan on Fan Mingyuan's business jet, said bitterly. Boeing laid off 15,000 people, while Airbus only laid off 1,000 people. It is easy to give the public an illusion.

That is, Airbus's operating conditions are far better than Boeing's. But in fact, Boeing still occupies most of the world's civilian passenger aircraft market share!

"Gray, what's there to be angry about? If they don't do this, it won't be Airbus!" Crawford said calmly. This time the two came to Pingchuan. Although they were talking about the outsourcing of Boeing 717 parts,

A preliminary intention was reached with the Fang family, but the two parties did not reach a consensus on the purchase of Boeing passenger planes. Fang Mingyuan insisted that if future airlines purchase more than five Boeing passenger planes in the near future, they must offer at least a 30% discount. Even if it is Crowe

Ford threatened to cancel the outsourcing of Boeing 717 parts, but Fang Mingyuan did not give in at all!

Moreover, Crawford also heard that although Airbus did not reach any agreement with Fang Mingyuan because it insisted on a 20% discount as the bottom line of the discount, it was actively promoting the A300-600ST super large transport aircraft to the Fang family.

As a result, Qinxi Aviation Manufacturing Group will transport components scattered in factories across the country to transport aircraft for final assembly in Shanghai. To this end, Merkel has done a lot of work in training pilots, training technical workers and scientific researchers of Qinxi Aviation Manufacturing Group, etc.

A lot of concessions have been made. Moreover, Airbus seems to be actively taking the upper-level route.

Just a few days ago, China's Premier of the State Council met with Airbus President and CEO Noel.

Fugard, the two parties have reached an agreement for China Airlines to once again purchase Airbus passenger planes worth 2.5 billion euros. It can be said that Airbus and the top leaders of the Chinese government are now in a "honeymoon period". If the Chinese government

If he puts pressure on the Fang family, will Fang Mingyuan eventually turn to Airbus? Crawford is a little worried.

Airbus won a large order of 2.5 billion euros from China Airlines in one fell swoop, which was already a big impact for Boeing. If Fang Mingyuan turns to Airbus again, will there be a chain reaction?

Although Fang Mingyuan has never made it clear how big the fleet size of airlines established in Hong Kong will be in the future. But he has a feeling that the new airlines should not compete with Cathay Pacific in Hong Kong's aviation industry.

Right? In that case, the new company’s fleet size cannot be small!

Cathay Pacific Airways has a fleet of hundreds of large commercial airliners from Boeing and Airbus, as well as a fleet of more than 20 Boeing 747 freighters. If you include Dragonair, which it controls,

There are dozens of aircraft and cargo planes, and the total fleet is close to 200!

Even in the next few years, if the new airline just strives to establish a firm foothold in Hong Kong, it will probably reach the fleet size of Dragonair, which will be a total of nearly fifty passenger and cargo aircraft!

Such a big piece of fat is absolutely difficult for Boeing and Airbus to let go of, especially in the past few years.

Due to the impact of the June 28 terrorist attacks, Boeing has lowered the number of passenger aircraft delivered this year from more than 530 to less than 500. At the same time, it is predicted that the number of passenger aircraft delivered next year may be only

About 400 aircraft. Before that, Boeing estimated that the number of passenger aircraft to be delivered in 2002 would reach more than 540! The reduction of nearly 150 aircraft determines that for Boeing next year,

It's been a difficult year.

If it weren't for the fact that the US government has declared war on terrorism, strengthened the purchase of military equipment, and Boeing Integrated Defense Systems Group has received large orders, Boeing's life would be even more difficult now!