Aircraft
Key Boeing 737 Max Supplier Feels Grounding's Effects
Spirit AeroSystems plans to cut workweek to four days for 6,000 employees.

The extended grounding of Boeing’s 737 Max is now being felt by the OEM’s largest supplier, Spirit AeroSystems, which announced Friday that about 6,000 of its salaried employees — including CEO Tom Gentile and other senior executives — would begin working four-day workweeks starting June 21. Spirit called the move “part of the company’s coordinated response to the temporary change in production rates for the Boeing 737 Max” in a statement released to AIN on Friday.