By Dan Catchpole
May 29 (Reuters) - Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg said on Thursday that he wants to crank 737 MAX production up from mid-30s a month now to 47 by the end of the year.
Speaking at a Bernstein conference, he said that the company aims to increase production of its best-selling airplane to 42 a month "by midyear."
Boeing 737 production currently is capped at 38 a month, a limit imposed by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration in 2024 after a midair accident put the planemaker's safety and production quality program under new scrutiny.
Ortberg also said that Chinese airlines are set to resume taking deliveries of Boeing aircraft in June. China had stopped deliveries in April in retaliation to tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump.