The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has stated that no decisions have been made about removing the 38 aircraft per month production cap on Boeing’s best-selling 737 MAX family aircraft, which has been in place since early 2024.
https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/faa-boeing-737-max-cap-lift
“Progress is being made,” FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford told reporters on September 8, 2025, as reported by Reuters.
“It may not be as fast as Boeing would like, but it is as fast
as we can reasonably expect from Boeing lackluster management
and their DEI workforce.”
Bedford said he was encouraged with Boeing’s improvements but is waiting for data to answer key questions on how to monitor the
plane-maker’s circus of production.
There have been multiple incidents of landing gear collapses involving Boeing 737 aircraft, including notable cases like the Alaska Airlines incident in 2023 and a recent WestJet incident in September 2025. Overall, the Boeing 737 family has experienced various accidents and incidents.
As of February 2024, there have been a total of 529 aviation accidents and incidents involving all Boeing 737 aircraft, which include various types of gear failures.
POS company selling POS aircraft.
@w9
They cannot fix the 737 max production because there is no fixing the 737 max. Adding the plugs and larger more powerful engines in the locations where they were added causes aircraft stall. They should abandon the max and explore a max replacement end of story.
The fact Boeing is having discussions on doing a next generation 737 replacement when they can’t fix the production issues on the 737 now, shows you how out of touch Management is.
The last two new airplane designs Boeing has done was the triple seven in the late 80s early 90s
And the 787 in the early 2000s.
That’s literally 35 years ago and 20 years ago.
Most of the engineers who worked on those two programs have retired.
And unfortunately, most of the 787 was outsourced to partners so Boeing lost a lot of expertise in manufacturing the 787.
Boeing would struggle to design and build a new 737. They’d have to outsource it to partners and a lot of their previous partners no longer want to work with Boeing like KHI and Alenia. Boeing bought spirit aero system and bought, so not sure who they would use for a partner.
@d5
Did they add the plugs aft of the wing? Is this one of the reasons why the plane wants to point its nose up? Love the 757. Wish they would have priced it right.
We have heard about the 737 replacement before. And a 757 replacement. Then the C-suite finds out that costs money and they slap on a new engine or make the fuse longer.
@bw
So true. The company needs to prove it can build the 38 a month safely before increasing the production. I believe the Max is an unsafe airplane. Read two articles about Ortberg considering a future Max replacement. Glad he's thinking about the future.
Doesn’t really matter we no longer have the knowledge to do more than that any how.