Boeing CFO comments on 737 production delay

Boeing CFO Brian West commented that although the company was not changing its target of 400 to 450 deliveries of the 737 aircraft, due to the production issues, he expects deliveries to be “at the low end of that range”. Speaking at an investor conference hosted by financial-services firm Jefferies, West referred to the previously disclosed problem during production to the 737 aft pressure bulkhead caused by incorrectly drilled holes by supplier Spirit AeroSystems. He said that the company knows how to fix the problem that impacts “about 75% of the 220 airplanes that were inventory as of the end