Seems like that number should be 100x larger. Three million is nothing.

Government policy is "must not burden the JCs". I agree, 3 Mil is nothing, compared to other Boeing foulups, like the latest iteration of the 77 being six years behind schedule. Commercial airlines don't like a vendor that fails, and fails, and fails. That's probably why Boeing has lost half of the commercial market share in had 20 years ago. That's probably why Boeing moved HQ to DC. DoD/WD seems to tolerate that sort of sloth, to infinity. So Boeing plans to leach off defense contracts, like Lockheed does.

One of "his nibs'" asks in trade negotiations is to extort trading partners to buy Boeing jets. I wonder what the counterparties think? Maybe "yeah, that schlock company will deliver years late, and we'll need to finish assembly and QC ourselves, but getting out from under a 50% tariff would be worth it"?

Steve