Boeing Considering Selling Seattle Headquarters

Nothing wrong with moving, but it won't change the fact that Boeing ownership has almost destroyed the company with a slew of unforced errors. Unfortunately the owners aren't going to fire themselves.

Step 2 of Moving out of Washington

Just to clear things up the plan is to sell the Tukwila "Longacres" campus and move the commercial jet HQ back to the old "Boeing World Headquarters" building on Boeing Field in Seattle that was their corporate headquarters before the Chicago move.

Certainly the political climate in Washington state is a factor, but the leadership and decision making at the top of Boeing is likely the root cause of the company's poor performance. They lost focus years ago when they failed to match airbus moves and misread the market. Airbus made mistakes as well but was able to alter course, Boeing on the other hand was slow to react, cut corners and lost focus on the civilian side of manufacturing, which was exactly what happened to McDonald-Douglass and Convair among others. Building aircraft is a very tough business and if you are not at the top of your game you lose, downsize and chase the government/military market.

Amazon will buy it when Boeing goes into Chapter 7

Further proof the Chicago idiots are in panic mode as their bonuses are facing extinction. Another ex-McDonald Douglas executives (if you can call them that) screw up. The company has no back up plan for new aircraft to compete with Airbus. When Airbus takes over Boeing in the not too distant future, hopefully they will get rid of the McDonald Douglas pestilence in Chicago permanently. 100 years of good engineering lost in WA, what a waste.

Company spokesperson Jessica Kowal said that whatever is decided, the leadership of Boeing Commercial Airplanes “will remain in the Puget Sound region.”
Now there’s a comforting statement. Or not!

Thank you Governor Insley.

The MD exec skidmarks at it again

Why would anyone or any company stay in Seattle?

Might as well if Boeing moves everything else out of the state.

Boeing in early to mid 2020 , was forced to raise 10 B $ to stave off failure . They burned through the 10 B $ in short order . Now they are selling off property to further stake $ in the Company . It is a truism , that when a company begins selling off its' assets , it is a harbinger of very despite times . When a company starts to feed on its' self , there is a setting in of panic for those in the Know . I put forward , to those who will listen , that Boeing will very soon need financial gaureentess from the US Gov't , if it is to survive . It is not just bleeding from the Max and other civilian Models , but it's hemoraging from the USAF Tanker . It has no sales and the military contracts are Fixed Cost ( KC-46 ) and the 3 b $ fixed cost on 2 747 conversions into Air Force One's will kill the company . There is No Fun in Boeings future ............DGR

This could be a good thing. That they are looking world wide to cut costs should be a warning if one looks at it properly. While some believe that using global resources to build everything and anything, one needs to remember that if final assembly of anything is in the US, shipping costs of everything can get expensive shipping via air or ship, verses just across a state via truck or train, or a combination thereof.

It would be cheaper to ship via train a fuselage body from Arizona than from BFE China. There is no need to make expensive modifications to aircraft to fly small sections of said fuselage back to the US. Closing warehouses and offices in far flung reaches of the planet and save money by doing such in-house.

...and welcome to the first of many corporate taxpayers who WILL abandon Seattle fir, shall we say, a”more tranquil location” than besieged Seattle! Now THAT’S the new reality, not working from home!

Next step is move production to Mexico and reduce production cost by 30% and increase executive compensation accordingly.

Excellent, get away from that communist kleptocracy.

For the first time they might just have seen the writing on the wall. High taxes, regulation, and failure to protect facilities from the Snowflakes and anarchists.

Next to go will be the design peopld followed by the military folks.

Wonder about security of their work .

Understandable. Why would any company want to set up shop in the anarchist state of Washington?

One has to feel sympathy for the workers in Washington as they watch incompetent leadership destroy their major industry but no sympathy for this heavily tax supported corporation which maliciously set out to destroy Canada's developing commercial airline industry. With the assistance of Donald Trump's illegal tariffs, they succeeded but still couldn't preserve their own flawed organization.

Intelligent move leaving leaving that Hellhole

they say that they don't have money but they decide to close the offices and move the way I see it as a waste of money and a lot of personnel out of jobs

For F sake guys!