Boeing could locate plants overseas, state aerospace recruiter says

[unhappycamper]

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2013/07/18/2682501/boeing-could-locate-plants-overseas.html

Boeing could locate plants overseas, state aerospace recruiter says
Published: July 18, 2013
By JOHN GILLIE — [e-mail]

As a global company, Boeing ultimately may spread its commercial aircraft manufacturing activities far beyond the Puget Sound area and its new assembly site in South Carolina, Washington’s chief aerospace recruiter told a gathering of aerospace industry executives Wednesday.

Alex Pietsch, director of the Washington State Office of Aerospace, told the Pierce County Aerospace Summit that the company may follow its rival Airbus in dispersing its factories more widely.

Boeing builds the majority of its commercial aircraft at two sites in the Puget Sound area, Renton and Everett.

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Pietsch said Boeing seems committed to expanding its presence in South Carolina, but the company’s plans at some point may even include building some of its jetliners overseas, he said.



unhappycamper comment: Great. The outsourcing continues....

[FreakinDJ]

1. Not liklely - they got trashed last time they tried to outsource their parts

Companies bid on parts and then could not deliver on the quality needed to meet Boeing/FAA standards. Boeing spent twice as much money taking over these small parts manufacturer and producing the parts they needed

[Demeter]

2. Not unless they NEVER want to sell to US govt. or US airlines again

What a stupid, stupid idea!

[pipoman]

3. It already happened..

Last year they closed the Wichita plant they had operated for 50 yeas..coincidentally, the same month the Wichita plant closed, their new Chinese plant opened..

Airplanes are a product which can be made anywhere and simply delivered anyplace else..2 people and a tank of fuel can deliver the largest aircraft boeing produces, from anywhere on the planet to anywhere on the planet....

[Demeter]

4. Don't know about you, Pipoman

But I would no more fly in a Chinese-made plane than I would feed a baby Chinese-made formula.

NPR reported on a family in China only feeds their baby babyfood flown directly from Germany in sealed packages....

It won't do anyone any good to have the criminals executed, after the dead are buried.

[pipoman]

5. I hope that the historical

instability of Chinese government returns and results in their plants, materials, and equipment being seized by the government and the owners being expelled from the country..

[OnlinePoker]

6. As if U.S. airlines have any loyalty to American made aircraft

There are thousands of Airbus' flying in the U.S. right now. All the airlines care about is how many bums can be put in seats for the lowest cost, and if that means buying foreign aircraft, they are perfectly willing to go that route.

[Demeter]

7. And how man y Dreamliners, or whatever the 787 is called, are flying?

The ones that spontaneously combust in flight?

[bemildred]

8. Don't let the door hit your butt. nt