Boeing's aircraft deliveries slipped in October on 737 fuselage flaw

Boeing's craft deliveries successful October fell from a period earlier aft a fuselage flaw successful its bestselling 737 Maxes delayed handovers of caller planes.

Boeing delivered a full of 35 planes successful October, down from 51 successful September. Of those, 22 were 737 Maxes.

The Virginia-based manufacturer's commercialized craft portion had told investors that the flaw would interaction its transportation numbers for the month.

"We'll retrieve connected that quickly," Stan Deal, main enforcement of Boeing's commercialized airplane unit, said during an capitalist lawsuit past week. "We tin surge and we volition retrieve for our deliveries astatine the extremity of the year, but that adverse prime which we person to negociate retired of the strategy was an impact."

Boeing is making astir 31 of the 737s a month. Last week, it told investors that it expects to present betwixt 400 and 450 of its 737s adjacent year, up from astir 375 planes this year.

The institution logged orders for 122 of its 737 Max planes successful October from carriers including Alaska Airlines and British Airways' genitor International Consolidated Airlines Group.

Supply concatenation problems and labour shortages person prevented the shaper from ramping accumulation up further, an contented that has deed rival Airbus, too, conscionable arsenic travelers are returning successful droves. JetBlue and United are among the airlines that person complained astir craft delivery delays.

Boeing past week laid retired a betterment plan for investors and analysts that forecast a instrumentality to yearly income of astir $100 cardinal by the mediate of this decade. CEO Dave Calhoun said the institution could present a caller airplane, but not until the mediate of the adjacent decennary since advances successful motor exertion don't yet warrant capable of a substance chopped to gully buyers.

The institution has struggled since 2 deadly crashes of the 737 successful 2018 and 2019, the Covid-19 pandemic, manufacturing flaws that paused handovers of its 787 Dreamliners, and problems successful its defense unit, including delays and outgo overruns of the 2 747s that are slated to yet service arsenic Air Force One.