Boeing’s New CEO Vows To Woo Pilots Back To 737 Max
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Boeing hopes to restore faith in the beleaguered 737 Max jetliner by focusing on winning over pilots in hopes that passengers will follow, the company’s new CEO said recently.
At the same time, CEO David Calhoun blamed a “fatal assumption” and a “process that should have had more light shined on it” as factors in the two crashes that killed 346 and led to the plane’s grounding since March.
In his first formal remarks to the press as CEO, Calhoun said his top priority is to get the 737 Max flying again.
“It will fly safely and I am confident in that,” he said. “When pilots get on those airplanes and support those airplanes, I believe passengers will follow.”
As such, he pushed back on reports that the Max name might be dropped to disguise its troubled past. “My instinct is a change with a new name would be sort of silly.” He said the overall goal is to restore faith in 737 jetliners as a whole ”without a lot of suffixes.”