LATAM scraps plan to acquire Boeing B737s after talks end with bankrupt Gol
Posted on Wednesday April 24, 2024

LATAM Airlines said on Wednesday that it was no longer seeking to acquire Boeing B737 planes either from bankrupt Brazilian carrier Gol or other sources, opting to look for alternative narrowbody aircraft after talks failed. The two airlines clashed shortly after Gol filed for bankruptcy protection in the U.S. in January, with Gol accusing LATAM of trying to poach its planes and pilots. LATAM then offered to acquire any B737s that Gol no longer wished to operate after its bankruptcy restructuring.

US Air Force narrows list to General Atomics, Anduril to build autonomous aircraft
Posted on Wednesday April 24, 2024

The U.S. Air Force (USAF) said on Wednesday that it narrowed down its list to choose General Atomics and Anduril, which will be funded for detailed designs, manufacture, and testing of production representative test vehicles for the future fleet of autonomous Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA). The CCA program is part of an Air Force plan for a next-generation family of systems, an effort to equip crewed fighter jets and other planes with a teamed uncrewed platforms that would fly alongside the human pilots. The selection of two awardees mean that Boeing Co, Lockheed Martin, Northop Grumman, which had hoped to be paid for the next design and testing phase would have to foot the bill themselves if they wish to continue development.

UPDATE 2-US to decide by late May if Boeing violated prosecution deal, sources say
Posted on Wednesday April 24, 2024

U.S. Justice Department officials plan to decide as soon as late May whether Boeing violated an agreement that shielded the planemaker from criminal prosecution over fatal crashes in 2018 and 2019, people familiar with the matter said. Government officials revealed the timeline during five hours of meetings on Wednesday in which families of the victims of the two Boeing 737 MAX crashes pressed U.S. officials to criminally prosecute the planemaker. The families have argued that Boeing violated a 2021 deal with prosecutors to overhaul its compliance program following the crashes, which killed 346 people.

After shrugging off a $355 million first-quarter loss, Boeing has to slog through the mud of fresh allegations it retaliated against workers
Posted on Wednesday April 24, 2024

Two Boeing engineers said their poor—and identical—performance reviews were the company lashing out over their raised safety concerns.