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boeing-has-started-working-on-a-737-max-replacement-40a110df

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Boeing Has Started Working on a 737 MAX Replacement

While CEO Kelly Ortberg has focused on addressing quality issues and
financial concerns, a new narrow-body plane is in development

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Benjamin Katz

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Drew FitzGerald

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Airplanes parked outside Boeing's Renton, Wash., factory.Airplanes at
Boeing's factory in Renton, Wash. Photo: Chet Strange for WSJ

Boeing is planning a new single-aisle airplane that would succeed the
737 MAX, according to people familiar with the matter, a long-term
bid to recover business lost to rival Airbus during its series of
safety and quality problems.

Earlier this year, Chief Executive Kelly Ortberg met with officials
from Rolls-Royce Holdings RR 2.28%increase; green up pointing
triangle in the U.K., two of the people said, where they discussed a
new engine for the aircraft. Ortberg appointed a new senior product
chief in Boeing's commercial plane business, whose prior role was
developing a new type of aircraft.

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