BCA Looks toward ‘Disciplined’ Recovery
Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) has so far shed about 40 percent of the 4,500 jo

Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) has so far shed about 40 percent of the
4,500 jobs it plans to cut this year, BCA president and CEO Scott Carson told attendees of the company’s annual investors’ conference on May 21. Nevertheless, Carson struck a decidedly upbeat note at the event, calling Boeing’s long-term financial prospects “very solid,” due largely to BCA’s production rate restraint and evidence that customers have come to grips with the realities of today’s economic environment.

“My sense in having talked to [the airlines] is that no one is expecting a sharp recovery,” said Carson. “I think most are viewing this as a more gradual, more disciplined recovery, many worrying about the implications of the continued rise in fuel prices and what that might do to the cost of air travel.”