Boeing: 2011 objectives not achieved

Bad year for Boeing in 2011, the U.S. aircraft manufacturer has not achieved its goal. Main reasons: the delay of the new giant of the skies: the 787 Dreamliner. Of course, Boeing has still received 805 net orders for commercial aircraft in 2011, rising 52% in rolling year.

Parallel 477 planes were delivered, which corresponds to an increase of 3%, the backlog amounted to 3,771 for its devices. However, deliveries in 2011 were lower than expected. Yet the latter had been lowered in late October, since that date amounting to 480 devices.

The delay in delivery of two new models - the 787 Dreamliner, including a first copy was delivered in September at the Japanese company ANA, and the jumbo 747-8, delivered to Cargolux in early October - will have been right targets.

The Dreamliner has been the subject of 13 net orders. 32 cancellations due to delays in deliveries of more than three years, however, to account while only three aircraft were delivered. Meanwhile, Boeing will have delivered 747 aircraft with nine this year.

In total, from 15 to 20 deliveries of 787 and 747 were expected. A situation that seems - by all appearances - let the ice Jim Albaugh, president and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, the latter saying that "the year just ended was one of the largest and most exciting in Boeing's history ".

"In passing record orders, our customers have expressed the confidence they place on our products and the quality of the work of our employees. In 2012, our goal is to ensure the production of the 787 regular and reliable, while maintaining the course of our deliveries, while we deliver an increasing number of aircraft for all of our programs, "said Jim Albaugh.

Finally be noted that Airbus did better than its competitor, recording at the end of November 1378 net orders. 2011 will be a record year for the European manufacturer, despite the cancellation of 10 orders for the A380.

The A320, a competitor of the Boeing 737, will in turn orders totaled 1,307 last year.