Boeing Aircraft Industry is planning to resume work gradually, to start production of commercial aircraft in the United States next week, after a hiatus of several weeks due to the spread of the Corona virus. p>
According to ArabiaNet, the decision to gradually resume production includes the group's factories in the northwestern state of Washington, which employs 70,000 people.
The 787 production site in South Carolina will remain closed.
About 27,000 employees will be the first to return to work. Production of the 787 is scheduled to resume from April 23.
The US Boeing Aircraft Manufacturing Group announced on April 5 that it will extend the suspension of activity in its factories in Washington State for an indefinite period, due to the isolation measures adopted to cope with the outbreak of the new Corona virus.
And media reports had confirmed on March 18 that the American aviation giant (Boeing) wanted to obtain sixty billion dollars in loans from the US government, to help it provide the necessary liquidity for its continuation, after the huge losses that it suffered recently due to the spread of the Corona virus and problems related to the fall Two of its planes.
According to the New York Times, Boeing is pushing for tens of billions of dollars in loans from the aviation sector in order to support it in the face of losses it has caused from the virus.
The company said that any liquidity that would be given to the company would be used to pay salaries and payments to suppliers to maintain the well-being of the supply chain.
The plane crashes of an Air Line airline at the end of October 2018 and another of Ethiopian Airlines on March 10, in similar circumstances, resulted in 346 deaths. Investigations indicated a defect in one of the information systems of the two planes.
