The catalyzing moment was last week, when CEOs of major U.S. MAX customers Southwest, United, Alaska, and American demanded to meet the board to express frustration at a lack of progress, sources said. Boeing Chairman Larry Kellner offered to set up bilateral meetings instead.
But over the weekend, Boeing’s board pre-empted that action - agreeing to staggered departures of Calhoun, Kellner and planemaking CEO Stan Deal, whose post went to chief operating officer Stephanie Pope. A senior industry source described the shakeup as Boeing management being “fired by its customers.”
Insiders noted it was the broadest top-level clear-out since CEO Phil Condit resigned days after the company’s finance director was fired in a defense-contract scandal in 2003. “The U.S. carriers were determined to force regime change,” said a source familiar with the discussions.
Once again, corporations are people until it comes to heinous crimes, at which point none of the people in charge face any repercussions and the company is fined something they can absolutely handle without trouble.
But you see, if executives were forced to face consequences for their decisions they couldn’t be the completely amoral psychopaths who would push profits at the expense of human lives