Corporate Chairman Summary Board Notes, Winging It

Pocket version: Andrew Boydston

Chairman Boydston:

I said Alfred E Newman take the lead, and here we are at the next board meeting leading with the airport kiosk sprinkled near CHAIRs filled with huMANs awaiting the next flight.

let's say "pandemic" in unison and then make a point. The clue is out and it makes a point.

• The 777X will save Boeing
• the 737 Max is going to fly off the shelf in 2020
• Boeing's corporation is run by idiots where employees suffer the executive malaise.

Executive Malaise and Fatigue:

fatigue often occurs along with malaise. When experiencing malaise, you will often also feel exhausted or lethargic in addition to a generalized feeling of being unwell.

Like malaise, fatigue has a large number of possible explanations. It can be due to lifestyle factors, illnesses, and certain medications.

IF I WERE BOEING'S CEO

The order book for Boeing is about to turn a corner. It took on 9 new orders during May. It shipped 4 freighters to its customer when for many months it was in a nosedive on both sides of its accounting book revenue and payables. Making Boeing a smaller Entity                              

       Alfred E Newman Chief Executive Organizer: 

                                Winging It

 

However, there is light at the end of the tunnel of an embattled balance sheet. Looking at declining orders resulting from 737 Max cancellations and a declining market place from over-all pandemic fear. Boeing shows a heartbeat at this time, with its paltry commercial airline results. 

Soon the 777X will come into its entry into service, and the 737 Max will begin its journey from the bottom of the mountain back to the top. The Covid-19 will be understood, and the market place will stabilize to the new normal meaning for "E(A)...ffective and Efficient for aerospace's world function. The Max will emerge as much as the 777X family of aircraft. Freight service is awakening the sleeping giant from a deep two-year slumber. 

Up first is the 737 Max. Even though it is a tired design from the 1960s and flawed design from its airplane balancing act. The first Max iteration to the Market-place stomps on all engineering sensibilities into a place where; "clean sheet" is the battle cry for corporate greed, "and not the Max" for a sensible market place tilt. Boeing must reorder its airplane line, not by corporate decree but by winning the battle of who has the best plan for any emerging Airline customer.

It's about your customers' BOEING.

Second, on the things-to-do list is the 777X.  Passenger and freight are a player's gambit. Boeing has to make an exceptional effort into its 777X frame, allowing airlines to battle rival transporters. Airbus must be always second to the trough of success. The 777X can carry 400 passengers and tons of freight having recombinations of passenger loads and freight loads for the same flight. It must swamp the market place with the 777XF first and continue as a 777-300-ER renewal secondly. But its entry into service is a simultaneous event for both passenger and freight.

In the end, the output of Max and 777X unifies the Boeing goals from all its types it makes. Including its Embr' through 777Xs.

What's Next? F-51 Mustang II!

Long ago,  back in 1995, there was an F-22 idea. Now in 2020, there is a sixth Gen possibility because of the F-22, and F-35 Lightning II. The tale of the tape reports  there are 168 F-22 assigned to the military, one crashed and two in a storage status while having 13 USAF to play with if need be in storage. The total comes 185 (186 built) F-22's for the last 20 years. The F-35 Lightning II is a strong spin-off for the F-22 all-purpose warfighter. It gets its roots from the WWII P-38 Lightning which was unparalleled, during WWII. It chewed up the Pacific and then the German ground movement not prepared for defense from its own ME 109's. The P-38 was that significant.

Now we are the 6th generation threshold where CAD computers can tough it out with a new breed superseding the F-22. MY proposal is simple:

Build 300 F-51 Mustang II's for the USAF(200) and (Navy's 100) a few (?) with a lift mechanism for the UNSMC austere capability for its amphibious force offloading ships from the USS 6 America class Landing Ship Dock without an amphibious deck included. It would have the capability of the world's toughest fighter not unlike the F-22's own chops. Invisible to radar imaging and exceptional situational awareness and having extreme offensive capabilities when like to all other weapon systems in the battlespace. If a prototype was built now it would be just in time by 2030. Of course new engines!

Embraer and Boeing Still at It!

A deal or "redo” in April is still an aviation Item. It is reported Embraer will come to terms with Boeing for its "E" series of aircraft such as its E-172, CNBC: “Embraer Chief Executive Francisco Gomes Neto said it was still early to discuss such opportunities as the company is studying a new five-year plan. He added that partnerships could involve products, engineering, and production.” 

 • Brazilian planemaker Embraer said it expects to sign new strategic partnerships in the future. 

 • The announcement comes after Boeing abruptly canceled a deal in April to take over the company’s commercial jet division. 

 • Embraer Chief Executive Francisco Gomes Neto said it was still early to discuss such opportunities as the company is studying a new five-year plan. 

Motley Fool: 

 “Embraer was left at the altar by Boeing and is now attempting to find a new partner for that $4 billion deal. Triumph is attempting to shed poor-performing businesses after years of underwhelming results but faces uncertain demand for the remaining units it would like to sell. GE has cut its overall workforce by about 10%, but some bears argue the company's cash issues are even worse than investors realize.”

When Customers Want A 777X going forward?

Boeing is stumped about who will buy the 777X going forward here are my candidates: 

 • Emerging new airlines 

 • Freight companies never considered 

 • Legacy airlines with long legs in place 

 • Expect a dozen 777X orders from emerging new Airlines like Vietnam's Bamboo 

 • Volga will order 6 and will go for the 777F 

 • American based airline who has not weighed-in like United or Delta are 6 hanging orders at this time. 

• Then 2024 is a fleet renewal for the 777-300-ER for a total 0f 20 units in play as an estimation

The A-380 Died When Travel Itself Was Not The Point

The A-380 was a marvelous concept and a technological feat only scouted by the 747 lines of aircraft.  However, the 747 had a long run before the A-380 showed up and a point to point model for travel was "what people wanted". The beach chair instead of the A-380 seat chair. The A380 was not the vacation but the destination came back into vogue. The long airport lines, customs, or inspection was no longer what passengers wanted. The passengers wanted about 300 in line acknowledging time was money more than a crowd going for the same beach for which an A-380 could land.

In other words, the real estate did not grow in Martinique so it could allow a bigger crowd to begin its vacation from the opposite departure gate before embarking to paradise. The vacation starts at the beach, and not at the jetway. People's vacation starts with a brochure not the airplane seats for 500 people at a crowded airport! The A-380 was a bad idea for people wanting to escape each year. It was a bad idea if conducting business from a budget account of $19.99 beach towels or toilet paper. It was a bad idea sleeping in first-class when a passenger had a Swiss alps lodge awaiting a long winter's nap just two hours away.

The A-380 was a bad idea period. Economy for the masses once a day didn't cut it for the profit line when filling up the A-380 with Jet-A. A smaller jumbo could in effect get a passenger to its destination to a business or vacation destination while not trying to make a journey as part of the vacation.

Here comes Change From A Boeing Perspective

Harold.Net Article:

Boeing lines up plane sales once meant for Russian carrier

The detail on how Boeing resold the Volga airplanes is contained in a written declaration to the court by Maria Akiyama, a Boeing Commercial Airplanes director who was Volga’s principal contact on the contracts.

• On May 4, Boeing “finalized the resale of the 747-8F airplane Volga refused and has scheduled delivery of the plane to Customer A,” Akiyama states.

• Customer A is likely UPS, which is the only remaining airline with 747-8s on order, and would likely be willing to take Volga’s remaining order for three more 747-8s if the Russians walk away.

• The court filings also include an April 2 purchase agreement with another unnamed airline, Customer B, to purchase two of the three 777Fs originally meant for the Volga.

• The agreement outlines a series of “credit memos” for the two 777Fs, with all financial details redacted, that likely stipulate the discounts Boeing is providing. And an additional memo makes clear the deal is conditional on an agreement to purchase multiple Boeing models.

• “In recognition of Customer’s partnership with Boeing as a 777 and 787 customer in [REDACTED], Boeing will issue to Customer a multi-model aircraft credit memorandum in the amount of [REDACTED], contingent on Customer executing definitive agreements to purchase (i) Model 777-9 aircraft and (ii) additional Model 787 aircraft no later than June 30, 2020.”

• The 777-9 is the first version of the new 777X, which began flight tests in January.

• There are a limited number of potential airline customers that fit the above details. The latest issue of Cargo Facts, an air freight trade publication, speculates that Customer B is most likely either All Nippon Airways (ANA) of Japan, EVA Air of Taiwan, or one of the large Chinese state airlines.

• Boeing declined to comment on sales discussions with customers.