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The FAA says it won't certify the 737 MAX 10 until it evaluates a flight-computer software issue that can drop pilots out of automated landing guidance after a missed approach — a flaw Boeing found in November 2024 but didn't flag to regulators as a safety issue until last month.
Voting opened September 24 on Boeing's revised four-year contract for about 17,000 SPEEA engineers and technical workers, with a 10% raise and a strike deadline of October 6 if it fails.
Biman Bangladesh Airlines has ordered five 787-10s and six 737-8s, its second Boeing order this year, taking 2026 commitments to 25 jets. Prices and delivery dates were not disclosed.
Turkish Airlines and Boeing signed a firm order for 100 737-8s plus 50 options in New York on September 23, closing out a year-long dispute with engine maker CFM that had put the deal at risk of going to Airbus.
Nine months after closing its Spirit AeroSystems buyback, Boeing's own SEC filings show acquired liabilities outweighing acquired assets by $1.9 billion, pushed largely by $1.52 billion in "off-market" supplier contracts signed before the deal closed.
Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg told investors on September 16 that 737 MAX production is running at 47 jets a month but is not yet stable, blaming a wing-production shortfall at its Renton plant that is also delaying the move to a rate of 52.
Lufthansa Group's supervisory board has approved exercising options for 20 Boeing 737 MAX 10 jets worth roughly $3.4 billion at list prices, its first-ever order for Boeing's largest narrowbody variant.
The FAA has exempted Boeing from a 2028 ICAO emissions deadline, clearing the way for up to 35 additional 777 Freighters to be certified through January 2031 while the delayed 777-8F replacement slips toward 2029.
Boeing and SPEEA reached a revised tentative agreement on September 12 offering a 10% immediate raise, days after 17,000 engineers and technical workers overwhelmingly rejected an earlier offer and authorized a strike.
Boeing has named Sean Black, the former Spirit AeroSystems engineering chief who led its reacquired Wichita site, to a new vice president role designing the production system for whatever aircraft eventually replaces the 737 MAX.
The FAA has confirmed Boeing quietly paid $3.1 million in January to settle hundreds of quality violations tied to the Alaska Airlines door-plug blowout — a penalty a US senator calls the cost of doing business.
The US State Department cleared a $4.5 billion sale of up to four Boeing KC-46A tankers to Qatar on August 20, 2026 — a deal that would give the Qatar Emiri Air Force its first aerial refueling fleet, over Israel's long-standing defense export embargo on the Gulf state.
SPEEA members turned down Boeing's 'best and final' contract offer by wide margins and authorized a strike for after October 6, deepening the pressure on Boeing just as it pushes to certify new jets and rebuild after 2024's machinists' walkout.
Boeing is selling Wisk Aero, Insitu and SkyGrid to Archer Aviation in exchange for nearly 20% of the air-taxi startup, folding a decade of autonomous-flight R&D into one balance sheet before the deal closes late this year.
Dozens of companies have tried to build large jetliners. Nearly all of them are gone. The Airbus–Boeing duopoly is not an accident — it is the product of the most punishing economics in manufacturing.
With more than 16,000 jets on order and both manufacturers sitting on roughly a decade of production, 2026 is shaping into a race defined not by selling aircraft but by building them.