‘Boeing needs to become a better company,’ says Southwest Airlines CEO

Southwest Airlines CEO Bob Jordan says plane maker Boeing Co. “needs to become a better company” amid safety issues prompting the Dallas-based airline to lower its expectations with fewer new plane deliveries this year.

“There is a lot going on at Boeing right now, I don’t think anybody would deny that,” Jordan said at the JPMorgan Industrials Conference on Tuesday, shortly after the airline disclosed in a regulatory filing that it…