✈️ Boeing and Spirit: The $4.7 Billion Breakup Reunion Tour

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Some couples just can’t quit each other. Boeing, after years of insisting it had moved on, is now prepared to shell out $4.7 billion to buy back Spirit AeroSystems—the very supplier it spun off almost two decades ago. It’s the corporate equivalent of texting your ex, “U up?” and wiring them a few billion just to prove it.

The timing isn’t exactly coincidental. Spirit has been at the center of countless Boeing headaches—wing flaws, fuselage hiccups, and quality issues that gave the 737 MAX more plot twists than a soap opera. After months of delays, inspections, and investors nervously checking whether planes still had all their parts, Boeing seems to have realized the obvious: if you want something done right, maybe don’t outsource it to your ex.

Europe’s competition regulators are now reviewing the deal, because nothing says “romantic reconciliation” like a Brussels antitrust inquiry. Still, the buyback has a certain ironic logic: Boeing is effectively paying billions to correct its own past decision, like buying back a house you sold cheap years before only to realize you really liked the kitchen.

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