Boeing Chief Executive Dave Calhoun will retire at the end of 2024 as part of a major restructuring under the aircraft giant’s leadership. writes about this CNBC .
Chairman Larry Kellner will also resign from the board at the annual shareholder meeting in May. He will be replaced by Steve Mollenkopf, who has been on the board since 2020.
Additionally, Boeing Commercial Airplanes President and CEO Stan Deal left the company immediately. He was replaced by Stephanie Pope, who previously headed Boeing Global Services and was most recently Boeing’s chief operating officer.
The change comes amid growing calls from airlines and regulators for major changes at Boeing over numerous manufacturing and quality control defects. Particular attention was drawn to the incident that occurred on January 5, when the door seal of Alaska Airlines’ Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft exploded.
“Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 was a turning point for Boeing,” Calhoun wrote to employees. He promised “full transparency” in the investigation and unconditional priority for security at all levels.
Last week, the airline’s top executives began scheduling meetings with Boeing executives to talk about quality control problems and slow production rates on the 737 MAX.
Calhoun takes over Boeing in early 2020 layoffs Former CEO Dennis Muilenburg amid 737 MAX crashes. He repeatedly promised to fix quality problems.
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