A Boeing 737 MAX airplane lands after a check flight at Boeing Subject in Seattle, Washington, June 29, 2020.
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Boeing mentioned Tuesday it delivered 35 planes in Could, on par with the earlier month because it grappled with provide chain points affecting its bestselling 737 Max jetliner.
The producer booked gross orders for 23 plane final month, nearly all of them wide-body planes, whose gross sales have lagged narrow-body plane orders. These included seven 787-9 Dreamliners for Lufthansa. In April, Boeing booked gross orders for 46 planes.
“Now we have set to work our manner by means of these provide constraints,” Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun mentioned at a Bernstein investor convention earlier this month. He mentioned the corporate does plan for manufacturing fee will increase however will “solely pull the set off when the provision chain is prepared.”
Whereas Boeing has confronted provide chain points for manufacturing of its Max jets, deliveries of its 787 Dreamliners stay paused as the corporate and the Federal Aviation Administration assessment manufacturing flaws earlier than handing the planes over to clients.
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