True to analysts’ prophecies, Boeing continued to rack up commitments for its popular 737 jet at the Farnborough Air Show in England today.
True to analysts’ prophecies, Boeing continued to rack up commitments for its popular 737 jet at the Farnborough Air Show in England today.
Two major leasing companies, one from the United States and the other from Kuwait, today announced commitments for 125 of the twin-engine, single aisle planes worth a total of $11.15 billion at list prices.
A $6 billion order for 60 Boeing 737 Max aircraft from Aviation Capital Group takes that latest version of the popular 737 over the 1,000-order mark in a little more than a year since Boeing put it on the market.
Boeing raised the production rate of its best-selling jetliner, the single-aisle 737, to 38 a month today at its Renton plant.
Geography had little to do with establishing Western Washington as one of the world’s great centers for the commercial aerospace industry. The happy historical coincidences and accidents that put Bill Boeing and his interest in aviation here, instead of somewhere else, as well as the decisions, gambles and mistakes that made his namesake company a dominant player in the industry while others faded, were not a function of place the way that the forest-products industry grew up here because that’s where the trees were.
Boeing’s commercial airplane order book is looking healthy after a little more than two months of 2013 have passed.
Boeing has told South Carolina legislators it plans to invest $1 billion and hire at least 2,000 more workers in South Carolina by 2020.
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