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Boeing CE Dennis Muilenburg will gain greater control over the aerospace giant’s engineering, safety and certification practices as part of a restructuring following 2 deadly crashes of its 737 MAX airliners. Under changes recommended by the company’s board, which Muilenburg leads as chairman, top engineers throughout Boeing’s sprawling commercial and defence units will report directly to the company’s chief engineer rather than division chiefs. The chief engineer reports to Muilenburg. The changes Boeing laid out Wednesday are the result of a review by a group of Boeing board members following the crashes. While the review didn’t focus on the accidents specifically, it uncovered no signs of undue pressure or other lapses that compromised the safety of the 737 MAX or other aircraft. <br/>

Just 5 years ago, Daxing was a dusty area of farmland to the south of Beijing, largely neglected by visitors to the city. That’s no longer the case, now that an enormous airport has emerged there to thrust China even closer to toppling the US as the world’s biggest aviation market. Beijing Daxing International, an US$11.2b starfish-shaped structure hailed by state media as a “new gateway” to the country, opens just in time for the People’s Republic of China’s 70th birthday. A state-of-the-art terminal is designed to eventually handle more than 100m passengers a year. Within 2 decades, annual passenger traffic in China’s skies will reach 1.6b, according to IATA, more than the country’s population today. China has set a goal of having 450 commercial airports by 2035, almost double the number at the end of 2018. <br/>