Transportation
Boeing Cautions on Deliveries After Strike Curbs Aircraft Output
- Planemaker handed over 33 planes, seven fewer than August
- October shipments poised to tumble as work stoppage lingers
Workers picket outside a Boeing facility during a strike in Everett, Washington, on Sept. 16.
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Boeing Co. managed to hand over 33 aircraft to customers in September, when a strike shut down large parts of its manufacturing, while warning that the work stoppage at its main production hub in the Seattle area will reduce future deliveries.
The aircraft handed over last month had already been cleared by US regulators prior to the strike by 33,000 members of International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, who walked off the job on Sept. 13, closing down manufacturing across the west coast of the US.