Boeing jet deliveries fall to 13 in November after strike ends

Boeing delivered 13 commercial jets in November, less than a quarter of the 56 jetliners it handed over to customers 12 months earlier, the U.S. planemaker reported on Tuesday. Deliveries were down from 14 in October, when most of the company's aircraft production was still shut down during a seven-week strike by 33,000 factory workers that ended Nov. 5. Boeing stock closed 4.5% higher on Tuesday. The planemaker said it restarted 737 MAX production, loading fresh fuselages into its Seattle-area Renton factory, after weeks of methodical preparation. News that Boeing restarted production of its best-selling 737 MAX last week was first reported by Reuters on Monday. The planemaker is trying to increase 737 production to a rate of 38 a month to generate much-needed revenue after it burned billions of dollars in cash during the first three quarters. However, it has been under heightened oversight by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration since a door plug blew out of a nearly new Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 during a January flight.<br/>