Boeing to hire 10,000 people this year

According to the company, "We have and will continue to communicate transparently with our teams that we expect less staffing within some corporate support functions."

About a third of the jobs will be outsourced to Tata Consulting Services, based in Bangalore as Bengaluru. Boeing said it will continue to increase its headcount with a focus on engineering and manufacturing. The company said it hopes to recruit more than 10,000 this year, as well as the 15,000 people it hired in 2022.

The airline giant is trying to turn itself around after a 737 Max passenger jet was grounded in the United States after two fatal accidents.

It was less than five months later, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, another Boeing 737 Max on its way to Kenya, crashed six minutes after leaving Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa. All 157 people on board were killed.

It later emerged that both accidents were caused by design flaws, in particular the use of flight control software known as the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System MCAS The system was designed to assist pilots familiar with previous generations of the 737, and prevent them from needing additional training to fly the new model.

Sensor failures caused it to malfunction, and in both cases forced the aircraft into a catastrophic dive that the pilots were unable to prevent.

The 737 Max aircraft has been cleared to fly again in most countries around the world after modifications to the aircraft and pilot training.

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