European airlines continue to pile pressure on Boeing over safety standards in planes
Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary will meet with Boeing this week over ongoing delays to aircraft, while British Airways said its ‘very important’ the US company gets back on track
European airlines have continued to heap pressure on Boeing, the crisis-stricken US aircraft manufacturer, to improve its safety standards and sort out multi-year delays in delivering new planes.
Both Michael O’Leary, the Ryanair chief executive, and Sean Doyle, the head of British Airways, have said the company needs to improve its manufacturing processes if it is to continue winning business into the future.
The US plane-maker has been in crisis since mid-January when an Alaska Airlines MAX 9 plane suffered a loss of a panel mid-air. The company is also battling with very long delays in its manufacturing pipeline, with Ryanair recently forced to cancel flights this summer after Boeing confirmed it will only be able to deliver 40 of 57 aircraft it had promised to deliver by June.
