The Boeing 787 remains grounded which after years of production delay is further embarrassment for the aviation industry in the United States. The 787 training operation will move from Boeing’s traditional home in Seattle (or more accurately Everett at Boeing Field) to Miami.

It’s a great victory for Miami providing more jobs at an airport and in an aviation sector which has struggled in recent years. Last year, United Airlines which was throughout the 1990s and early 2000s MIA’s second largest carrier offered employees incentive laden transfers to nearby Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport as they scaled down Miami & West Palm Beach operations in order to consolidate most local flights at FLL. Around the same time Alaska Airlines shifted operations entirely to Fort Lauderdale. That was followed by Air Jamaica (now owned by Caribbean Airlines) consolidating its south Florida operation in Fort Lauderdale. The airline had previously served both airports.

Boeing has controversially moved many jobs from Washington to right-to-work South Carolina but this development appears to be unrelated.