The airline recorded a loss of EUR 600 million as a result of the US President’s machine construction contract in 2018.
Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun said the company should not have agreed to the terms of a deal with Donald Trump four years ago, revealing that the cost of the financial slip felt like a loss of 600 million in the first quarter of 2022.
Although he did not directly mention the former president of the United States, Calhoun described the € 3.5 billion contract, initialed in 2018, for the construction and development of two aircraft for the White House as a “very strange negotiation.” Boeing “shouldn’t have signed.”
“We are where we are, we are going to deliver two great planes and we will bear the costs associated with them,” Boeing’s CEO added. It is recalled that Trump was directly involved in the negotiations when he said in 2017 that the acquisition of a new Air Force One would cost a billion less than originally planned.