Boeing rectifies issue with supplier; To step up 737 Max deliveries

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Boeing has not changed its long-term guidance for 2025-26, which calls for production of the 737 Max to be upped to 50 per month..

Aircraft maker Boeing on Wednesday said that clean fuselage supplies from its vendor Spirit AeroSystems will commence imminently allowing it to step up production of the 737 Max aircraft, even as buyers, including Air India and Akasa Air, would have to wait longer for deliveries...

More than two-thirds of Boeings finished inventory comprising 225 737 Max airplanes will require fuselage rework, leading to aircraft inventory piling up in the on-going quarter, Brian West, chief financial officer and executive vice president finance, The Boeing Co, said in an analyst call on Wednesday...

While Boeing executives did not specify a timeline by when Spirit is expected to start delivering faultless fuselages, David L Calhoun, president, chief executive officer and director, The Boeing Co., said, They (Spirit) know the scope and theyre going to start delivering clean ones (fuselage) imminently..

Akasa Air is expecting deliveries of 12-16 aircraft per year from next year as part of the total 72 units of the 737 Max aircraft order it placed earlier..

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