Boeing Commercial Airplanes plans to cut about 5% of its workforce, division chief Stephanie Pope told employees in an internal memo on Monday, 9 November 2026.
The division had 50,494 employees as of December 2025, so about 2,500 roles are affected.
The cuts will come through a combination of attrition and involuntary layoffs, with notices going out in December at the earliest. Boeing must give 60 days’ notice in many US states.
Boeing said it is resetting the pace of its production-rate increases to give factories and supply-chain partners more time to achieve stability. It now expects to reach a 737 production rate of 47 jets a month in early 2027, after previously projecting that pace by summer 2026, and it does not expect to reach $10 billion in free cash flow until 2029, a year later than analysts expected.
Boeing has also struggled to lift 787 production from 8 to 10 jets a month, and its 767 and 777 programmes have been disrupted.
Boeing shares were down less than 1% in afternoon trading on Monday.
This is Boeing’s first significant workforce reduction since 2024, when it cut 17,000 jobs.
Source: Reuters
