Saj Ahmad has given another one of his "sage" predictions: he thinks Charleston, SC, will get all Boeing 787 production.
He's quoted in the Charleston newspaper on this prediction. He said:
Saj Ahmad is chief analyst at StrategicAero Research, a
private aviation consulting firm operating in Europe and the Middle
East. Ahmad said he thinks South Carolina could well become one of the
country’s largest aerospace manufacturing hubs in the coming years.
Boeing would not have invested so much in the area had it not planned on
maintaining a long-term presence, and other aerospace companies will
likely be drawn here as a result, he said.
While
Boeing’s roots go deep in Everett, Wash., it has a spanking new
production facility in Charleston and a workforce here that is trained
in the latest technologies and processes. Workers here didn’t have to
unlearn old ways of doing things to make this new-generation plane, he
said.
That bodes well for the plant landing more and
more work as Boeing expands its lines, and it could conceivably become
the main assembly point for 787s in the future, he said.
“I
don’t think South Carolina will be a one-trick pony,” Ahmad said. “I
think there is a very real opportunity for Charleston to snare all of
the 787 production.”
Fact Checker is sure IAM 751 will find this prediction of more than passing interest. Everett has the primary 787 line and the surge line, which gives Everett the ability to produce 10 787s a month.
The "analysis" reported by the Charleston paper is not only weird, the first part is hardly insightful--of course Boeing plans a long-term presence there.
The Everett IAM also had to fix all the problems coming out of Charleston.
Saj Ahmad and his new Strategic Aero Research still leave a lot of "analysis" behind.
