Boeing Beats Airbus in Air-Show Orders as Demand Rebounds
- U.S. company says it won deals for 571 planes; Airbus had 326
- Jet buyers gear up for surge in middle-class travel in Asia
Boeing's Muilenburg Is Bullish on Paris Air Show Orders
Boeing Co. beat rival Airbus SE in orders at the Paris Air Show this week as a new, stretched version of the U.S. planemaker’s 737 workhorse sparked a flurry of intense deal-making at the aviation industry’s biggest gathering this year.
Boeing won orders and commitments for 571 planes worth as much as $74.8 billion, Ihssane Mounir, the U.S. manufacturer’s head of commercial aircraft sales, said at a press conference at the show. While Airbus pulled out a series of late agreements, it fell short with a tally of 326 airliners valued at just under $40 billion, sales chief John Leahy said at a separate briefing, adding that the two companies were about equal in terms of firm orders, which exclude more tentative agreements to buy.