Spirit AeroSystems, Boeing’s struggling supplier, will begin furloughs in three weeks if a strike at its biggest customer continues, in a signal of how the work stoppage in Washington is rippling through the aerospace supply chain.
Spirit makes the fuselage for the 737 Max, which is assembled at a Boeing site where the aerospace giant’s workers walked off the job earlier this month. An industry source said Spirit was behind schedule, so it was using the labour unrest to catch up on filling older orders, but should the strike stretch past mid-October, the supplier would no longer be insulated from it. The Spirit furlough plans have not been previously reported.
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