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Airline CEOs are adamant that Boeing prioritise improving its quality control over any attempt to accelerate production.

Boeing is bleeding billions, but it is too big to fail

Few companies confronting Boeing’s challenges would be able to contemplate raising more than $50 billion. But Boeing is not a normal company.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz

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The Boeing 777-9 on display at the Dubai Air Show last year.

New Boeing will be the world’s longest, widest passenger plane

After years of delays, the Boeing 777-9 is finally set to take off with airlines next year. Here’s what passengers can expect.

  • John Arlidge
The Starliner docked to the Harmony module of the International Space Station.

Starliner’s troubled space capsule begins to emit ‘strange’ noises

Last week, NASA officials deemed issues with Starliner’s propulsion system too risky to bring its first crew home as planned, dealing a major blow to Boeing’s struggling space program.

  • Chris Zappone
An uncrewed Starliner capsule approaches the ISS.

Space headache: Astronauts’ plight piles pressure on Starliner program

NASA deemed the capsule’s troublesome thrusters unsafe for the return journey for two astronauts, creating the latest humiliation for Boeing at the hands of Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

  • Joey Roulette
Months after departing for a week-long flight, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore will end up spending more than eight months in space.

Astronauts who went to space for a week stranded for eight months

The astronauts have been stuck at the International Space Station since the beginning of June – and will spend more months in space before returning to Earth.

  • Marcia Dunn
Boeing faces large fines.

Boeing to plead guilty to fraud for violating deal over 737 Max crashes

Boeing faces a criminal fine of as much as $721.4 million and will be required to spend at least $660 million to bolster its compliance and safety programs

  • Chris Strohm, Julie Johnsson and Allyson Versprille
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The project is a major plank of China’s high-tech economic and military ambitions and its aim of being technologically independent of the West.

The West’s incompetence could surrender the skies to China

China is determined to become a major player in air travel, and the West is leaving the door open.

  • Matthew Lynn
NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore are stuck in space indefinitely.

An eight-day trip to space has gone wrong. Two astronauts are stuck indefinitely

Boeing and NASA warned that because this was a test flight to and from the International Space Station, everything might not go perfectly. It hasn’t gone perfectly.

  • Christian Davenport
The manufacturing giant has been facing increasing scrutiny over a series of incidents.

A big decision for Boeing: Is it time for a new plane?

Building a new plane soon could help the company regain ground it has lost to Airbus. But doing so would be difficult, and risky.

  • Niraj Chokshi
Virgin’s outgoing boss Jayne Hrdlicka.

‘We made a good choice’: Virgin boss stands by Boeing as carrier sheds poor performance tag

Virgin Australia’s outgoing boss Jayne Hrdlicka says the airline has fixed its on-time performance problems despite ongoing delivery issues at Boeing.

  • Amelia McGuire

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