Boeing boosting 787 production rate

Published 10:17 am Thursday, November 3, 2011

The Boeing Co. will increase production of the 787 to 3.5 jets a month by “early spring,” according to a report by Bloomberg.

Reporting from an investor’s conference in Boston, Bloomberg quoted Boeing’s Jim Albaugh as saying the company already can build part of the fuselage at a rate of 10 a month, its goal for 2013.

The fuselage work is done at Boeing’s new plant in South Carolina.

Workers in Everettt boosted final assembly of the new jet to 2.5 a month last month, Albaugh said.

They had been at a two a month rate for the past year.