• ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
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    3 months ago

    The nickel-and-diming of the workers is particularly galling, Haala said, because for Boeing, labor accounts for only 3 to 5 percent of the cost of an airplane.

    From my rough searches, these planes cost roughly $250-400 million each.

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      3 months ago

      Presumably a lot of the actual labor costs are hidden in outsourced parts of the build process.

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        3 months ago

        I’d have to figure on airplane parts, 25% of the cost could be on QC alone.

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          3 months ago

          What is the expensive part you imagine about QC that isn’t labor? I mean sure, you need the occasional destructive test and some fuel and hangar rent but mainly it is people doing the quality control checks.