Honeywell flies to Seattle during Boeing’s supplier summit and factory tour week

Honeywell flew a Dassault Falcon 8X from Charlotte’s 14th Street Gliderfield to Boeing Field in Seattle late on June 3, touching down just before 1 a.m. on June 4. The 2-hour-38-minute trip, tracked by FlightAware data, brought the company’s leadership team to the Puget Sound region.

The same week, Boeing is hosting its annual Supplier Summit at its Everett factory, per the event’s public schedule. For Honeywell — a major Tier 1 supplier of avionics, engines, and cabin systems across Boeing’s commercial and defense lines — the summit is a high-stakes forum to negotiate pricing and delivery timelines amid Boeing’s production ramp-up. The flight also coincides with a scheduled factory tour of Boeing’s 737 and 777 assembly lines, giving Honeywell executives a first-hand look at near-term production constraints.

Honeywell patterns show frequent visits to Boeing Field: the aircraft visited Seattle on May 15 as well, and prior legs this spring included stops in Ottawa and Phoenix. With the aerospace unit accounting for roughly 35 percent of Honeywell’s annual revenue, per its latest 10-K filing, the trip is less a getaway and more a quarterly check-in with its biggest customer.