Like other experts who have studied the company, he expects production to pick up in the late 1990's, but with far fewer employees.
Most analysts had expected increased production to begin next year and reach full speed by around 1993.
He expected production to rise a like amount this year, but instead it has fallen 10 percent.
These sources expect Saudi production in the next two months to increase by 300,000 barrels a day.
The company, which spent $250 million in repairs, expects production to restart by the end of the year.
He said he expected production to begin in about eight months.
General Dynamics expects production of the plane to continue through the 1990's.
The company also says it expects production to rise by only 3,000 tons this year, or less than 3 percent.
But they do expect production, and it was in the back of my mind that I may need to be putting up points.
Pratt expects production on the short to last approximately one year.
