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Originally Posted by Ducay
I don't think its financial in terms of needing the money to fund the fix. The fix is cheap and Boeing is a monstrous entity with plenty of revenue still coming in, and that doesn't even touch on their massive cash reserves (USD 8B+), debt availability, etc. Plus the fact they were paying these people already so not like it is actually costing them much more than some additional OT and related development costs. A drop in the bucket of their costs.
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Not sure which employees you are referring to here. The assembly line workers putting the aircraft together are hourly employees so reducing production will directly reduce costs to Boeing. But yes, otherwise much of the cost to fix is relatively cheap for Boeing to fix.