Boeing 20-year forecast

RANDY TINSETH, Boeing Vice President of Marketing, was in London last week to present his company’s (46th) annual commercial passenger and freighter aircraft forecast.  Mr Tinseth and his team foresee a market for 30,900 new commercial passenger and freighter aeroplanes by 2029.  He could not resist the opportunity to have a dig at Airbus for not only their poor forecasting but also perpetual spin.  With Farnborough about to start he noted than in the last five years Boeing has announced 477 Airshow orders, as against 1,261 by Airbus.  However at the same time actual net orders have been more or less equal 4,234 against 4,263 with Seattle slightly in advance.  The impressive presentation is on line and had nearly three quarters of a million visits over the last 12 months.  How many were by Airbus we do not know. www.boeing.com/cmo

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