Two weeks after temporarily shuttering its Puget Sound operations, Boeing has further contracted manufacturing by closing the 787 facility in South Carolina, affecting about 7,000 workers. At the same time, Airbus is closing its Mobile, Alabama, plant, where it makes A220 and A320 aircraft. Both are the result of expanding shelter-in-place guidance being rolled out on a state-by-state basis. Boeing reacted in Washington after one of its workers died from COVID-19; this shutdown, intended to last two weeks, has been extended indefinitely.
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