The Czech government, which owns the rest of Aero Vodochody, has become increasingly impatient with Boeing, last year setting a deadline of the end of 2004 to bring in international sales, and is suggesting publicly that the time has come for Boeing to pull out. The new restructuring plan may not change their minds: a suggestion by Boeing last year to make half the 2,000-strong workforce redundant met vigorous opposition from chairman Antonin Jakubse.