Old news. The facilities had been for sale for two years. Boeing Seattle is
becoming an assembly plant more than a manufacturing plant. They contract
substructures out to manufacturers around the world and put them together
here. This goes back to the 777 and maybe before.

TV news yesterday showed a modified 747 with 65000 cubic feet of cargo
space, designed to ferry entire 787 fuselages from wherever they are built
to (I assume) the Everett plant.

Bob Gardner

"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
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On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 03:12:39 GMT, George Patterson
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"We thought Onex was the right buyer, at the right time, because of their
track
record working with employees, the unions, the community and their track
record
growing companies," said Jim Morris, senior vice president of supplier
management for Boeing Commercial Airplanes.

I'll bet part of Boeing's motivation was due to the discrimination
suites brought by its employees.