Who Makes the Drearnliner?

Boeing designed, assembles, and markets the Dreamliner, but the airplane is made by more than 400 firms on four continents that employ thousands of workers and millions of dollars' worth of specialized capital equipment. The graphic identifies some of the firms and the components they make.

Boeing and these firms make decisions and pay their workers, investors, and raw material suppliers to influence what, how, and for whom goods and services are produced. All these decisions are made in self-interest, and produce an airplane at the lowest possible cost.