Airbus loses battle with Boeing
The European aerospace concern Airbus has not received in February 2010 orders for its aircraft, it is clear from the site of the company. Since the beginning of the year Airbus received 11 orders that were completed in January. During the second month of the year GW has signed only a memorandum of intent with Hong Kong Airlines, which plans to commission additional € 6 liner A330-200 already paid to 17 aircraft. In contrast, the main competitor of Airbus, the American Boeing, on March 2, already has contracts with 57 models 787 and 737. Official representative of Airbus, quoted by Agence France-Press, notes that nothing unusual had happened, and hastened to clarify that the data for last year, the concert was significantly ahead of its main competitor contracts. On December 1, ahead of Airbus Boeing in 194:93 ratio, but for the whole year the difference is even greater 310:263 in favor of European air-concern.
Competition between two large producer of civilian aircraft starting from the mid 90’s of last century. At first leader was Boeing, but the beginning of the century U.S. leadership the company gave Airbus.
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