Boeing is considering boosting 737 production to 42 planes per month, higher than production increases already announced.
Boeing is ramping production from 31.5 737 single-aisle jetliners per month to 35 a month by 2012, with an increase to 38 per month by mid-2013.
At the International Society of Transport Aircraft Trading meeting in Scottdale, Ariz., Jim Albaugh, head of Boeing’s commercial airplane division, said Boeing was taking a “hard look” at further production increases, according to a report by Flight Global.
Spirit AeroSystems builds the 737′s fuselage.
