Transportation
Boeing’s New CEO Touts Transparency, Plans to Walk Factory Floor
- Ortberg puts focus on Seattle hub in shift from predecessor
- Customers need troubled planemaker to succeed, CEO tells staff
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Boeing Co. Chief Executive Officer Kelly Ortberg said he’ll walk the main factory floor near Seattle on his first day and relocate to the city that forms the nucleus of the planemaker’s activities to renew the bond with workers stung by crisis.
“While we clearly have a lot of work to do in restoring trust, I’m confident that working together, we will return the company to be the industry leader we all expect,” Ortberg said in a memo sent to Boeing employees on his first day in the new position. “I will be transparent with you every step of the way, sharing news on progress as well as where we must do things better.”