Boeing’s commercial airplane order book is looking healthy after a little more than two months of 2013 have passed.
The company is reporting net orders for 191 new commercial airliners through Tuesday. That number includes 140 of Boeing’s popular single-aisle 737s, 11 777s and 42 787 Dreamliners minus two cancellations from undisclosed customers.
That total doesn’t include an order for three 747-8 Freighters from Cathay Pacific Airways announced later this week and an order from Air China for two 747-8s , one 777-300ER, 20 737s and eight 777s from an affiliated company not yet confirmed by the Chinese governments.
Boeing’s order totals were strongly propelled upward earlier this year by an order for 100 737s from American Airlines, which had announced the order last summer, but hadn’t completed the order until early this year.
john.gillie@thenewstribune.com
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