November 20, 2008
MINNEAPOLIS — Boeing Co. has seen its orders peak and the number of planes in its backlog will probably decline going forward, the chief of its commercial airplanes division said Wednesday.
“This year will certainly be a lower orders year than the previous three, which were unbelievably strong,” Boeing Commercial Airplanes President and Chief Executive Scott Carson told analysts at an aerospace and defense conference. “Everything that we see in the world today would suggest that next year will be down.”
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