Boeing has suspended dividend payment, extended its share buyback programme and cancelled the pay of its chief executive and board chairman for the rest of 2020, following its request for a $60 billion bailout from the US government. On Tuesday last week the airframe maker made its appeal on the basis that 2.5 million jobs and 17,000 suppliers relied on it remaining solvent. While the stock buyback programme was initially suspended in April 2019, following the two 787 MAX crashes, Boeing’s request for aid last week ran into criticism over financial mismanagement at the company. According to research by Bloomberg, over

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