14 Quotes by Peter Jacobs

For Boeing, the implications for a strike depend on its duration,

It's my devotion to the cause that keeps me helping out each year,

These pension liabilities, the promise to pay large amounts to employees when they retire, have made a lot of companies uncompetitive, ... It becomes a slippery slope.

Airbus had a splendid year in 1999 in achieving record new airplane orders, no doubt about it. At the same time, you have to remember that Boeing has an incredibly strong backlog of business -- nearly 1,500 airplanes. They should be able to the deliver the majority of new airplanes in the future.

The longer production is halted, the harder it is to restart the process and keep the supply chain fluid.