McNERNEY: It will be a big deal for our customers out here, broadly speaking.
Mr. McNerney has conceded that Boeing went too far in spreading out the 787's supply chain.
Woking needed a late Joe McNerney equaliser to earn a draw at Ryman One North Brentwood Town.
The much-delayed Dreamliner might actually be ready for deliveries soon, Boeing chairman and CEO Jim McNerney said.
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McNERNEY: Fixing Europe obviously a priority, but the growth is here for now.
"We expect to complete the bulk of fleet retrofits by mid-May, " said McNerney, according to a transcript of the call.
In 2008, as problems and delays continued to mount for the Dreamliner, Mr. McNerney toured several of Boeing's key suppliers.
" In retrospect, Mr. McNerney said during an earnings call, "there is no doubt that the baseline was too ambitious.
Mr. McNerney has kept a low public profile since a Jan. 7 battery fire on a parked Japan Airlines Co.
That includes Jim McNerney of Boeing, who also heads up my Export Council, and several members of my Economic Recovery Advisory Board.
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"Nothing that we have learned has told us that we have made the wrong choice on the battery technology, " said Mr McNerney.
Behind the scenes, Mr. McNerney has been actively involved in other ways, according to Tom Downey, Boeing's senior vice president of communications.
McNERNEY: You referenced Korea and Colombia, Panama -- big, strong, pro-trade votes.
McNERNEY: And we will respond to that, and I appreciate those comments.
Of course, even McNerney may consider himself on starvation rations compared to some of the more rapacious buzzards in the American corporate aviary.
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In assuring investors, Mr McNerney added the company plans to "aggressively" implement several initiatives that would allow the company to compete more effectively.
In addition the administration has tapped Boeing chief Jim McNerney and Xerox head Ursula Burns to lead an advisory council on international trade.
McNerney allowed for the possibility of a settlement after Administrative Law judge Clifford Anderson told both parties to negotiate in a hearing last week.
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The man with the most at stake is Jim McNerney, Boeing's chairman and CEO since July 2005, who presided over the Dreamliner's problem-plagued launch.
"We are trying to witch-hunt the issues in this program right now, " Mr. McNerney told investors in October 2006 as the problems became apparent.
And I want to thank Jim McNerney and Ursula Burns, who are serving as chair and vice chair of this council, for their outstanding work.
McNerney said Boeing expects to resume Dreamliner deliveries in early May.
"Mulally was an optimist" about how much money the new plane could make, but Mr. McNerney and fellow directors were skeptical, the ex-board member says.
Mr. McNerney expressed surprise, according to someone present at the meeting.
Those particles are small enough to stay suspended in the air for hours, and can enter into the airways of a person's lungs, Dr McNerney said.
The CEO has met with FAA chief Michael Huerta, and Mr. McNerney is running daily meetings on the status of the investigations and being updated regularly.
"Nothing that we have learned has told us that we have made the wrong choice on the battery technology, " Jim McNerney, Boeing's chief executive, said last week.
Jim McNerney, chief executive of Boeing, said that it was "business as usual", adding that the firm planned to go ahead with a planned ramp-up in production.
McNERNEY: I think one related question, looking at the world from the Chinese side, is what they would characterize as impediments to investment in the United States.
Mr McNerney described the FAA's approval as "a critical and welcome milestone toward getting the fleet flying again and continuing to deliver on the promise of the 787".
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