Airbus Beats Boeing in ’05 Aircraft Orders
January 17, 2006
Airbus SA managed to beat archrival Boeing Co. last year in the race to book the most aircraft sales.
The Toulouse, France, aerospace company notched 1,055 net new orders in 2005 compared to Boeing’s 1,002, The Wall Street Journal said Tuesday.
While each company broke its own sales records, and in the process topping the industry’s previous record for total sales of 1,631 set in 1989, the value of Boeing’s orders exceeded those of Airbus.