The CEO of Boeing, Kelly Ortberg, said that the company has met requirements set by the Federal Aviation Administration to increase its production of 737 Max aircraft to 47 jets per month, reports CNBC.

The company is currently rolling out its cash-cow aircraft at a rate of 42 per month, Ortberg said at the Bernstein Strategic Decisions Conference in New York City on May 27.

“We’ve passed the capstone review for rate 47, so we are now in the process of running the line at the 47-a-month rate,” Ortberg said. “It may take a little bit longer, but we’re off and rolling now… and we should be there in the next couple months.”

Boeing faced charges of sub-par quality controls and hasty work at its factories following the blowout of a door plug aboard a 737 Max in January 2024, leading to a lengthy investigation by the Federation Aviation Administration. The FAA capped Boeing's monthly production at 38 planes, before raising that cap to 42 in October 2025.

Earlier in May, the National Transportation Safety Board held a two-day investigative hearing in Washington, D.C., in order to question Boeing and other key players about a UPS MD-11 cargo plane crash in Louisville, Kentucky, which killed 15 people, reported The Seattle Times.

Meanwhile, Boeing’s main rival, Airbus, along with carrier Air France, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter by a Paris appeals court on May 21, over the 2009 crash of flight AF447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris that killed 228 people, reports NovaNews.  

The New York Times reported in March that airlines have reported a marked improvement in the quality of newly-delivered planes since Boeing made sweeping changes to its safety procedures and supplier practices.

In Boeing’s Q2 2026 earnings report in April, the aerospace manufacturer reported that sales rose 14% to $22.22 billion in the first three months of the year. The company narrowed its net loss in the first quarter to $7 million, down from a loss of $31 million a year earlier.