Boeing Co.’s assurance that it can pull itself together in the next three months is giving rise to two opposing questions: Is that too little time to turn things around — or too long to withstand the financial hemorrhaging?
Chief Executive Officer Dave Calhoun put an optimistic spin on the embattled company’s outlook as he presented Boeing’s earnings on Wednesday, maintaining a mid-decade cash-flow target and predicting a reversal of fortune in the second half.
By then, as Boeing’s timeline goes, the laser focus on quality will yield results and help restore output of its troubled 737 model.
