Monday October 6, 2008

Boeing booked 11 more commercial aircraft orders last week, taking its year-to-date net to 623, but said that third-quarter deliveries fell 23% year-over-year.

Last week's most notable commitment was ANA's order for nine 767-300ERs, which was announced last month but incorrectly identified with an identical order logged for nine -300ERs the prior previous week (ATWOnline, Sept. 29).

ATWOnline understands that the still unidentified nine 767-300ERs plus four 777s posted that week are for Japan Airlines. The -300ERs for both carriers are to fill capacity shortfalls caused by the late delivery of their 787-8s and 787-3s.

A 747 for Boeing Business Jets and one unidentified 737 constituted the balance of last week's commercial aircraft orders.

On the delivery front, the 84 reported in the third quarter were down from 109 in the year-ago period. Deliveries during the three months ended Sept. 30 comprised 67 737NGs, four 747s, two 767s and 11 777s. Year-to-date deliveries totaled 325, down from 329 in the first nine months of 2007.

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