Emirates boss says Boeing needs strong CEO to end crisis
Emirates urged Boeing to pick an engineering and business heavyweight to lead a deep overhaul of the U.S. aerospace giant and said the task of ending the planemaker's recent confidence crisis «must get done».
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«Is it fixable and salvageable? Yes, it is. Will it get things back to where it needs to? It must. And you'll only do that with very strong leadership, who are fixated on doing the right thing,» Emirates Airline President Tim Clark told reporters on the sidelines of a major airlines summit.
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Turning round the manufacturer after a series of safety and industrial problems, to the point where it can meet existing and new demand smoothly, may take five years, he said.
Emirates is the world's largest buyer of long-haul jets to feed its Gulf hub.
Boeing is looking for a new CEO after announcing that Dave Calhoun would step down by the end of the year following back-to-back crises exacerbated by the blowout of a loose door plug on an Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 jet in January.
Clark, who has been one of Boeing's severest critics during the crisis, told Reuters he had never met Calhoun, who was appointed CEO in January 2020 following a pair of 737 MAX crashes in 2018 and 2019 that killed nearly 350 people.
Boeing had no immediate comment on his remarks.
In December, Boeing named Stephanie Pope to the newly created position of group-wide chief operating officer in a move seen at the
