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.
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