Boeing 
may lose a $1 billion order from Oman Air for its 787 Dreamliner if the schedule for the 787 slips any further, the Gulf carrier said, according to Bloomberg.
Oman has ordered six Dreamliners for delivery starting in the first half of 2014. It may turn to the Airbus A330 widebody if a two-year delay for the 787 is extended, Oman CEO Peter Hill told Bloomberg.
“I really hope they get their act together,” Hill said. “Further delays might mean that we’d have to look elsewhere.”
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Maybe Airbus needs to purchase Beoing and do to beoing what Mercedes did to Chrysler
It sounds like Boeing needs to get it’s act together. Not being able to deliver a finished product to the customer is bad for EVERY Boeing employee, regardless of position. They need to fix this now!
Chicago-based Boeing has done far too much out-sourcing overseas. As a result they are running into ‘fitting’ problems and re-work.
However, I am sure their executives will continue to get their ‘performance’ bonuses.
The real problem with this airplane is the massive amounts of change to the design. The Boeing engineers run amuck and there seems to be no management oversight to what these changes do to the schedule or the Bcase.
Some day soon this science project will make a really good HBR case study.
They are not worried about it, they will take the bail out just like the US auto makers and the execs will still get their huge bonuses.