INTERVIEW
Ramping Rates
Tom Gentile, president and CEO of aerostructures supplier Spirit AeroSystems, sat down at the company’s headquarters in Wichita for a wide-ranging interview with Aviation Week Editor-in-Chief Joe Anselmo, Senior Business Editor Michael Bruno and Molly McMillin, managing editor of the Aviation Week Network’s The Weekly of Business Aviation AW&ST: We hear a lot of squealing in the supply chain — suppliers who say they can’t make a profit anymore because of demands for price cuts from above.