Boeing plans to cut around 5% of its Commercial Airplanes workforce through attrition and layoffs as it struggles to ramp up jetliner production, delays its 737 output targets and pushes back its. will cut 5% of its commercial airplane workforce as the company struggles to stabilize the pace of its production ramps. Boeing has been working to stabilize production rates of its best-selling 737 Max planes, which are made outside of Seattle.