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Spirit Aerosystems also does work for Airbus.

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"Our business depends largely on sales of components for a single aircraft program, the B737 MAX"

-- Spirit Aerosystems 2022 10-K filing

They do 3 times as much business with Boeing than Airbus.

(Airbus may also wrap Spirit in their own Q/A process to mitigate the issues, which Boeing is certainly lacking)

Also this article just hit the front page today:

https://viewfromthewing.com/boeing-whistleblower-production-...

The worry is that Airbus is ALSO going to be affected by this shitty quality, not that Boeing isn't totally fucked by its outsourcing to Spirit Aerosystems.

Different purchasers can have different expectations of quality and pay the company differently;-)

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