The USAF has continual complaints about the KC-46 tanker aircraft, also built by Boeing, for the same issue; foreign objects and trash left strewn about the aircraft.

Boeing considers Quality Assurance to be a liability, inspectors on the floor have to deal with production management on a daily basis that are trying to meet a schedule. Managers performance is based on the schedule being meet and bonuses are based on meeting the schedule. I have seen know defective parts being installed just to meet a daily schedule.

The current FAA Policy of letting manufactures certify their own product, ie ODA, has let the fox in the hen house, this policy is also contributed to the 737 MAX debacle, should have never happened, Congress was a sleep again.

Workers at the Everett plant have careers! Workers at the Charleston plant have jobs!

Boeing standards have drastically gotten worse. It matters more to (Boeing) satisfy investors and overpaid CEO's than to satisfy customers.

It does not matter where the aircraft are built - it's up to Boeing to make sure work is checked, checked and double checked in every and all of their plants, before delivery. If workers are inadequate, replace them. KLM is right - safety has to be priority.

Boeing QC has suffered a lot recently. Perhaps an upper management shake up is in order? These problems just can't be allowed to continue. Too much at stake.

For those who don’t read the article... wow just wow.

“Some examples about the lack of proper quality control are: loose seats, missing or incorrectly installed split pins, nuts that are not fully tightened, an unattached fuel pipe clamp and various missing parts.
KLM blames Boeing for poor quality control, late delivery and inadequate workforce at the factory.”

As long as Boeing is run by MBAs instead of engineers, those problems will continue.

Have a watch of the Al Jezzera documentary (now 2 or 3 years old) about the South Carolina plant? where Drug dealing occurred on the premises, sloppy work was carried out..
Boeing plant workers said they would not take their families fly on a SC built 787. Boeing set up the Union free plant in order to stop delays over issues raised over quality controls,fair pay for a days work, etc., etc., Boeing received huge State concessions also for building in SC.. Something Stinks in the Boeing ideology. All hail the share price and the stakeholders. Screw people safety coming on first. The CEO, the Board, All need to go according to Ralph Nader - and I agree with him.

When a company that produces any thing that can effect the lives of people that use it ,there has to be a nature of trust in that company.For many years Boeing had that trust with them being heads and shoulders above the rest..Then when in the race for more efficient ,money saving aircraft was in demand and other aircraft manufacturers moving forward with their product and the share holders of Boeing demanding that their dividends not to be lowered,Boeing needed /wanted to save money in production.They laid off Senior engineers in Seattle and started to using cheaper engineers in India then they moved some productions out of Washington State where experience aircraft personnel worked to a cheaper area where they hired many non experience along with some experience aircraft workers and their Quality Control plummeted.

Boeing sounds like malaise era General Motors.

Anything to save a buck and get those bonuses

south carolina boeing employees are proud anti-union , happy to work for less money, and seem to be sloppy on detail and fit and finish. Will it take a 787 crash, based on bad build, to establish that fact? Hard to show pride in work when one works too fast at something not entirely familiar with.

Bill Boeing is turning over in his grave seeing what has been done to the excellent organization he built. The senior “managers” from McD D who run the show now have only one concern - share value. It shows in the product and the people left behind.

Every vehicle manufacturer who has opened a plant in the Southeast to save on labor costs has discovered that if you pretend to pay them, they pretend to work.

I will take a long haul with them in 2 months... inbound leg PTY-CDG with Airfrance and return AMS-SJO by KLM. Instead of feeling enthusiastic about my first dreamliner ride, I feel this will be more like a survival challenge. It's sad to see how quality standards and safety is poorly managed today by Boeing.

And how Boeing and the SC politicians bragged about leaving the Machinists union behind in Seattle. $$$ first.

...wow, thought this was about Boeing QC issues, not infantile bantering about Al-J...

Boeing better get their head out of you know where on this, they have zero grace left, if something bad happens from this plant its really seriously over for boeing commercial.

If this is true, there is no alternative but to raise the salaries and benefits of the managers of the plants.

Who invited A.net users to this comment feed? Such hostility toward other commenters!

I can’t imagine how hard it would be to be a supervisor at that location. I’m sure there is no one standing behind you when accountability standards are not met.

Boeing is being slammed in the media following the MAX issue, so bad, that it's not even about the lives lost or even the fix anymore. It's MSM narrative execution for reasons none of us know for sure. A software issue is a coder/programmer on the ground who doesn't care about aviation as we do, and sadly that allowed a couple of fatal "accidents" on an otherwise brilliant, efficient, exemplary, single-aisle aircraft. Sadly the Boeing bashing media narrative continues, and is quite contagious judging by this comment thread. Sh-tty work at the at the other plant need be rectified, no doubt or denial there, but the end of the article just so happens to state (buried, as not to disrupt the driven, anti-Boeing narrative,) "On the other hand, KLM is quite satisfied with the operational performance of its Dreamliners. The airline has recently ordered one more Boeing 787 and exchanged its A350s on order with the 787s ordered by the other Group partner Air France."

I'm sure the unions are more than happy to spread this news..

I can't help but wonder if the negative comments about quality are union driven. That aside, being born in and raised around Seattle-Everett loyalty to the Boeing brand has been ingrained from childhood. I am sick to read about the current situation. Such a long proud history, and now this. I really hope they recover, but it looks like a long battle.

Shut down that plant; fire every SOB in there, restaff and reopen. Too serious of a issue to just shrug your shoulders at.

Sounds like the same folks that built my travel trailer

It is greed

Exactly.

This reads like lobbying propaganda from the Seattle labor unions.

I have been down-voted twice in the last two threads that I have participated in. I failed to realize that Flight Aware is just another tool of the growing socialist movement. Down-voting has always been a way of silencing those you disagree with in Communist societies. Who the hell needs my opinions anyway? Adios muchachos.

I can't help but wonder about employees who complain about poor workmanship in their own products. If I did a crappy job, or observed my co-worker(s) doing one without saying anything, I sure wouldn't brag about it.

Please do some intelligent investigating in to alternate non MSM butt kissing "legitimate" news outlets.

MAGA