Air Force Warns Boeing’s New CEO That It’s Not Happy Either
- General cites troubled tanker as CEO copes with Max airliner
- ‘We also rely on a relationship of trust,’ he wrote to new CEO
An KC-46 tanker at the International Paris Air Show on June 17, 2019.
Photographer: Eric Piermont/AFP via Getty Images
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The Air Force’s top military officer has sent Boeing Co.’s new CEO a blunt reminder that the ill-fated 737 Max passenger jet isn’t the only troubled project he has to rescue.
There’s also the company’s failure to provide a combat-ready refueling tanker, nine years after Boeing won a competition for the $44 billion project.