At Boeing factory, unfinished 737s pile up
Boeing is facing a problem as it races to meet demand for single-aisle, fuel-efficient jets: where to store unfinished 737s piling up at a factory near Seattle. One answer in late July was the taxiway of the small airport in Renton, Wash., next to its Boeing factory there. “Boeing is running out of space,” Renton public works administrator Gregg Zimmerman wrote to city council members in a July 27 memo about the taxiway plan. “They have encountered an emergency production challenge that threatens to interfere with their ability to keep their airplane production lines running.” The unfinished airplanes illustrate a challenge to Boeing as it tries to make enough of its new 737 Max jets to meet fast-growing demand. Boeing and Airbus together have more than US$1t in orders for planes, driven by a global boom in air travel. <br/>
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At Boeing factory, unfinished 737s pile up
Boeing is facing a problem as it races to meet demand for single-aisle, fuel-efficient jets: where to store unfinished 737s piling up at a factory near Seattle. One answer in late July was the taxiway of the small airport in Renton, Wash., next to its Boeing factory there. “Boeing is running out of space,” Renton public works administrator Gregg Zimmerman wrote to city council members in a July 27 memo about the taxiway plan. “They have encountered an emergency production challenge that threatens to interfere with their ability to keep their airplane production lines running.” The unfinished airplanes illustrate a challenge to Boeing as it tries to make enough of its new 737 Max jets to meet fast-growing demand. Boeing and Airbus together have more than US$1t in orders for planes, driven by a global boom in air travel. <br/>
