2024 has been another miserable year for Boeing. Not only has it struggled to cope with a safety and quality control crisis, but it has also lost billions of dollars following a strike by workers that paralysed production at two of its biggest factories.

Even its space programme has been in trouble. Two astronauts were left stranded on the International Space Station in June after their Boeing Starliner capsule developed a potential fault, which would have made returning to Earth in it too dangerous. Continue reading →