Boeing fine-tunes job cuts as major buyer slams 777X jet delay

Boeing declined to comment. In a surprise late Friday move, Boeing announced 17,000 job cuts and pre-announced quarterly earnings with $5 billion of charges led by a new delay to 777X and the ending of civil 767 production. The delay of one year in 777X deliveries to 2026 enshrines a delay already widely anticipated in the industry after certification and testing delays, and means the planned successor to the 777 mini-jumbo would be six years late.