How Much Did Aero Manufacturing Lose In COVID-19?

aircraft on runway

There were roughly 3,000 fewer narrowbodies and 1,000 fewer widebodies produced in 2020-24 than had been planned prior to the pandemic.

Credit: Iain Masterton/Alamy Stock Photo
Boeing is flirting with becoming a junk bond issuer; Spirit AeroSystems now is a stand-alone company in name only; and no new large commercial aircraft will emerge from U.S. industry for another decade—at least. Boeing and its supply chain have long been the face of American aerospace manufacturing...

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