Boeing itself is suffering as the global air transport industry is brought to its knees by travel restrictions and confinement measures aimed at stopping the spread of COVID-19.
“Maybe by the end of the year we approach 50 , so there will definitively be adjustments that have to be made on the part of the airlines,” Calhoun added. Boeing has been struggling due to the restrictions, which have deprived it of clients and jeopardized its order book. Calhoun took the company’s helm at the start of the year amid already grim circumstances: Boeing had been shaken by two major crashes involving its 747 MAX model that saw the plane rounded since March 2019.
A total of 346 passengers and crew members were killed in the Lion Air crash in October 2019 and the Ethiopian Airlines crash in March the following year.