February 10, 2009
Boeing's delayed 787 Dreamliner remains on track for its first deliveries in the first quarter of 2010, Scott Carson, chief executive of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, said on Tuesday.
The company pushed back the 787 delivery schedule for a fourth time in December, making its plane almost two years late and risking cancellations from angry airlines.
Carson said that Boeing's record order backlog would serve the company well as economic recession "continues to challenge every region of the world."
He said Boeing would continue to split the market with Airbus but that new Russian, Brazilian, Chinese, Canadian and Japanese competitors aspired to enter the marketplace.
"We cannot be dismissive of... their attempts," Carson said.
(Reuters)
Boeing's delayed 787 Dreamliner remains on track for its first deliveries in the first quarter of 2010, Scott Carson, chief executive of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, said on Tuesday.
The company pushed back the 787 delivery schedule for a fourth time in December, making its plane almost two years late and risking cancellations from angry airlines.
Carson said that Boeing's record order backlog would serve the company well as economic recession "continues to challenge every region of the world."
He said Boeing would continue to split the market with Airbus but that new Russian, Brazilian, Chinese, Canadian and Japanese competitors aspired to enter the marketplace.
"We cannot be dismissive of... their attempts," Carson said.
(Reuters)
