(Reuters) – Boeingwill raise its production of 787 Dreamliner passenger jets to 14 a month in 2019, Chief Executive Dennis Muilenberg said on Wednesday, pressing ahead with plans that had been placed on hold as it gauged demand for wide-body jets.

The decision to raise output from 12 a month was announced at a conference, a spokesman said, shortly after Boeing struck a preliminary deal to sell eight of the jets to Malaysia Airlines.

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