Airbus-Boeing Acquisition Of Spirit AeroSystems Is Far From Over

Boeing fuselage being transported by rail

For 19 years, the 737 fuselages transported by train from Wichita to Renton, Washington, bore the Spirit AeroSystems name. Now they will bear only the Boeing name.

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Of the many ways to look at Boeing’s acquisition of Spirit AeroSystems, consider this: Boeing essentially will pay about $9 billion—including $559 million to archrival Airbus—and possibly considerably more in the end to buy and fix a failing supplier that it owned 20 years before. Compare that with...
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