LONDON, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Air India is

holding off on exercising its outstanding options to buy

additional Boeing ( BA ) jets, its Chief Executive Campbell

Wilson told Reuters on Wednesday, until the planemaker has

cleared its backlog.

"We don't want to commit to anything until we have

confidence of when it's going to come. And likewise, they

(Boeing ( BA )) don't want to offer something until they have

confidence of when it's going to come," Wilson said in an

interview in London.

In 2023, Air India ordered 250 new jets from Airbus

and 220 from Boeing ( BA ) to revive its status with an all-new fleet.

The airline also signed options to buy an additional 70 planes

from Boeing ( BA ) including 50 737 MAXs and 20 787 Dreamliners.

It topped that up with an order for an additional 85 Airbus

jets in October.

Boeing ( BA ) is still facing a production cap of 38 jets a month,

imposed by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) last year

after a door blew out on an Alaska Airlines plane and scrutiny

of Boeing's ( BA ) safety and manufacturing procedures increased.