Boeing executives extended an olive branch to the company's strained supply chain this week to help them deal with the fallout of the latest
737 MAX crisis, but those firms are taking a wait-and-see attitude after years of dealing with the planemaker's hard-line approach.
The aerospace giant's shift in tone was underlined by a speech on Wednesday by Ihssane Mounir, Boeing's vice president of supply chain and fabrication, at an aerospace conference outside Seattle. "We build the airplane together. There's no you and us. It's just us," he said.