Boeing Wins 335 Orders in 2001

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Boeing Wins 335 Orders in 2001

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Boeing Commercial Airplanes said Wednesday that it logged definitive agreements for 335 orders during 2001, noting that 80 percent of the airplanes comprising those orders will deliver within the next three years.

The company is taking steps to deal with industry realities, said the Seattle-based group president and CEO Alan Mulally in a statement, including working with customers to deliver the airplanes they need, adjust production rates accordingly and improving Boeing's operational efficiency.

Referring to the 527 commercial jetliner deliveries announced last week by the company, Boeing said that the number translates into 62 percent of the commercial aviation industry's deliveries in 2001.

"Boeing also is looking at promising opportunities in the worldwide fleet," the commercial airplane group said. According to the company, Boeing airplanes currently make up roughly 80 percent of all the commercial airliners over 100 seats operating in the world. More than 3,000 airplanes still in service are 20 to 30 years old and are candidates for replacement. Nearly 1,600 of these airplanes are in North America alone, and in Europe there are more than 300.

Highlighting the achievements in 2001, the group mentioned the sale of 30 Boeing 737s to China worth an estimated 1.6 billion U.S. dollars, and the rollout of the 1,000th Next-Generation 737. Boeing 737 program achieved such worldwide success in less than four years and is the best selling airplane program ever, Mulally said.