
Boeing workers reject contract offer at crucial moment for company
Boeing’s engineering and technicians union voted Friday to reject the company’s contract offer and authorize its negotiating team to call for a strike.
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Boeing’s engineering and technicians union voted Friday to reject the company’s contract offer and authorize its negotiating team to call for a strike.

Alaska Airlines will offer nonstop flights from Seattle to Paris, France and Athens, Greece starting next spring.

Some members of Boeing's white-collar union say the company's offer doesn't include a high-enough guaranteed raise and falls short on a commitment to keep work in the region.

“Freefall,” streaming Wednesday on Netflix, examines what’s happened inside Boeing and Boeing factories from the perspective of whistleblowers.

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American Airlines flight 2482 was attempting to land from Chicago very early on Friday at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. At the same time, to the dismay of an air traffic controller, another American Airlines flight — also with the call sign 2482 — was departing.

The trial resolves one of the few remaining cases filed against Boeing by the families who lost loved ones in the Ethiopia crash.

Federal investigators found evidence of a bird strike during a harrowing Ryanair Boeing 737-8 flight in Greece last month that saw one passenger hanging out of a broken window.

The incident has come under intense scrutiny after local media reported that the captain may have tested positive for marijuana in a follow-up drug screening.

Boeing delivered 53 airplanes in July, including 39 737 MAX jets and 10 787 Dreamliners.

Boeing is selling its autonomous flying taxi company in California, its Washington-based unmanned aircraft systems developer, and its air-traffic company in Texas.