• New CEO will have to rebuild trust, reputation
    • Company posts another quarterly loss as it burns cash
    • Defense and space business adds to Q2 losses

July 31 (Reuters) - Boeing on Wednesday named aerospace industry veteran Kelly Ortberg as its new President and CEO after a months-long search, tasking the former Rockwell Collins executive with the monumental job of turning around the struggling planemaker.

Ortberg, 64, will start on Aug. 8 and face a multitude of issues, including reviving jet production and rebuilding trust with regulators, the industry and the flying public. Shares rose 2.9% before the bell.

Boeing, one of two global planemakers, has been mired in a reputational and safety crisis after a Jan. 5 mid-air panel blowout on an Alaska Airlines-operated MAX 9 jet carrying 171 passengers. It posted a $1.4 billion loss in the second quarter as it continues to burn cash.

  • @elliot_crane
    22•1 month ago

    A mechanical engineer, Ortberg has put more than 30 years in aerospace and defense, including numerous executive roles.

    Cautiously optimistic that Boeing will get back to the engineering quality standard it was once known for, now having an actual engineer back at the helm.