Boeing's Order Book Swells -- Thanks to Its Ever-Popular 737
Boeing released its latest report on airplane orders received -- and cancelled -- through the first nine-point-something months of 2013 on Thursday.
To date, the aerospace giant has booked:
842 "gross" orders for various flavors of its 737 regional airliner
132 orders for the 787 Dreamliner
44 for the 777 airliner
five 747 orders.
From this total, Boeing subtracted 119 737s, eight 777s, all five 747s, but just a single 787, for customer cancellations, resulting in a net of 890 commercial airplanes ordered year to date.
This is a significant jump in orders since I last checked in on Boeing late last month, and found the company's order book populated with "only" 834 net new plane orders. The increase is entirely attributable to Boeing's ever-popular 737 airliner. The Boeing-anointed "best selling commercial aircraft in aviation history" has picked up 71 new orders, while losing only 15, in the past three weeks.
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