Calhoun to leave Boeing

BTN News
Tuesday, 26 March 2024

US plane maker Boeing says its ceo Dave Calhoun will step down by the end of the year.


Boeing chairman Larry Kellner and Stan Deal, who heads the commercial airplane unit, also are leaving.

Former Qualcomm ceo Steve Mollenkopf will succeed Kellner, while Stephanie Pope will take over at Boeing Commercial Airplanes.

Boeing has faced more than five years of problems with its planes, including two fatal crashes of the 737 MAX in 2018 and 2019 that killed 346 people and most recently, a panel that fell off an Alaska Airlines 737 MAX on January 5 this year.

“The eyes of the world are on us,” Calhoun said when announcing his departure. “We are going to fix what isn’t working, and we are going to get our company back on the track towards recovery and stability.”

Michael O’Leary, the ceo of Ryanair, told CNN that whenever it takes deliveries of Boeing jets “we spend 48 hours going through the plane checking it for errors, omissions or anything else”.

Ryanair now has issued a statement saying: “We welcome these much-needed management changes in Seattle.”

Calhoun, 66, is a long-time board member at Boeing and became chairman of the company in late 2019, when the board stripped his predecessor Dennis Muilenburg of that title. 

He was chosen as ceo after Muilenburg was ousted in December of that year, starting in the job in January 2020.

Calhoun to leave Boeing

BTN News
Tuesday, 26 March 2024

US plane maker Boeing says its ceo Dave Calhoun will step down by the end of the year.


Boeing chairman Larry Kellner and Stan Deal, who heads the commercial airplane unit, also are leaving.

Former Qualcomm ceo Steve Mollenkopf will succeed Kellner, while Stephanie Pope will take over at Boeing Commercial Airplanes.

Boeing has faced more than five years of problems with its planes, including two fatal crashes of the 737 MAX in 2018 and 2019 that killed 346 people and most recently, a panel that fell off an Alaska Airlines 737 MAX on January 5 this year.

“The eyes of the world are on us,” Calhoun said when announcing his departure. “We are going to fix what isn’t working, and we are going to get our company back on the track towards recovery and stability.”

Michael O’Leary, the ceo of Ryanair, told CNN that whenever it takes deliveries of Boeing jets “we spend 48 hours going through the plane checking it for errors, omissions or anything else”.

Ryanair now has issued a statement saying: “We welcome these much-needed management changes in Seattle.”

Calhoun, 66, is a long-time board member at Boeing and became chairman of the company in late 2019, when the board stripped his predecessor Dennis Muilenburg of that title. 

He was chosen as ceo after Muilenburg was ousted in December of that year, starting in the job in January 2020.