Boeing may reacquire Spirit at higher price despite hating optics (arstechnica.com)

I cannot upvote this enough. They continuously squeeze suppliers either on a bill or to make more faster. Accidents are bound to happen.

Spot on. The spin out was a cynical move to fragment their assembly workers, show better return on net assets, and do engineering by contract demands. Here is the internal memo predicting a bad outcome:

https://techrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/2014130646...