Tue, Mar 13, 2007
$4.5 Billion In Sales From Kuwait, Russia, And US
Boeing continues writing new airliner orders at an astonishing
pace. On Monday alone, the company announced $4.5 billion in new
sales.
In addition to an 18-plane deal from Kuwait's Aviation Lease and Finance
Company, on Monday Continental Airlines ordered five
787s, worth about $900 million, increasing its orders for the new
plane to 25. It also upgraded 12 existing orders for the 787-8 to
-9's, a larger variant with 40 additional seats. It's the first
order for the larger Dreamliner variant from a US carrier.
Russian air freight company Volga-Dnepr also reportedly signed a
deal worth $1.4 billion dollars for five new 747-8 Freighters, with
an option for five more. The company's president told Reuters it is
the biggest deal in Russian civil aviation history.
Boeing is benefitting from a weak US dollar -- which makes its
planes cheaper for the rest of the world to buy -- and from delays
in deliveries of competing products from Airbus. The company now
has an order backlog of over 1,500 aircraft.
Boeing has resisted increasing production, but was reported last
week to be discussing increased 787 production with suppliers.
Since then, American Airlines has hinted it may want as many as
300 new 737's. At a time when a shutdown of C-17 production for the
military threatens to idle 7,000 Boeing workers... perhaps stepping
up civilian airliner output will get another look.
For all its current woes, 2007 isn't shaping up too badly for
Airbus so far, either. In fact, as of the end of February, the
European planemaker had 97 orders on the books -- 33 more than
Boeing.
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