Of High Stakes and Low Bars
In a move evocative of a last ditch bluff, Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun (pictured below) has declared he’ll scrap the 737 MAX 10 program if Congress doesn't extend a regulatory deadline that would allow the model to enter service without upgrades to aspects of its crew-alerting system. Carried out, Calhoun’s threat would do away with the largest member of the MAX family—for which Boeing has, to date, logged 640 firm orders—and curtail job growth at Boeing’s Renton, Washington plant, where the entirety of the world’s fleet of over eleven-thousand 737s has been built.
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