Alan Mulally Absolutely Quotations

I feel very good about our production rate increase plan. It reflects all our lesson learned from the past. We have a very disciplined commitment and compliance process. ... We decided three times not to increase production rates faster. That's why we are not making up those 30 planes until we are absolutely on our way to making these rates changes, and then we will look later about going up even higher.

The 737 is an icon of efficiency in air travel and one of commercial aviation's greatest success stories. We are absolutely thrilled that the world's largest 737 operator -- Southwest Airlines -- is the owner of this historic airplane. Our partnership with Southwest and hundreds of other 737 customers has resulted in continuous improvements to the 737 and its ability to help our customers be successful.

We would be absolutely walking away from our commitments to our customers, ... They bought the airplanes and are counting on receiving the airplanes. There is no way we could recover.

I just cannot emphasize enough what a strike would mean to us because we would absolutely be walking away from our commitments to our customers. There's just no way we would recover.