Boeing pressured to make new desitions

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Boeing under constant pressure to make a new desition
After the Paris Air Show in Le Bourget, Paris, Boeing has been under constant pressure by customers for announcing if they were either going to create an all-new airplane that would be launched around 2020 or re-engining the 737 as airbus did.

After airbus achieved more than 500 narrow-body orders, boeing has been telling their customers they are not scared by airbus' achievement, because anyways they saw that coming, but fellow customers are starting to be driven away to Airbus, even American Airlines has been rumored of considering the purchase of Airbus narrow-body aircraft.


As seen here, the new airbus A320 NEO.

While other customers are still loyal and still bought 737 units while the paris air show even if they had the possibility of purchasing the new, more economic A320neo, among this customers we can find MIAT Mongolian Airlines (Having ordered 737 and 767 aircraft) and a few more, while at the wide-body aircraft market, boeing outsold Airbus by many aircraft, while selling a lot of 777s and growing its 747-8s order backlog and while also selling the 767, although many airlines are still considering orders for either the 787 or the A350 (like Air France/KLM which is in this process).


MIAT Mongolian Airlines 737 and 767 as pictured above

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U.S Airlines planning on replacing large amounts of aircraft

In the past few months, since even a year, u.s airlines have been talking and rumored on thinking on expanding or replacing aircraft on their fleet, specially in the case of American, Delta, and United Continental which all have aging fleets of certain types of aircraft.

 American for instance has been rumored to be considering purchasing Up to 250 narrow-body aircraft, this order could be split among airbus and boeing aircraft, which would break American's long-term only-preference for Boeing aircraft, of course many say this are just rumors, or that American could be saying this to push Boeing to make a decision wether to Re-engine the 737 or make an all-new airplane, or it could be to push Boeing to give cheaper aircraft prices to American.

We also have the case of Delta which has been saying that they would maybe order a big quantity of narrow-body aircraft to replace aging 757s, A320s, and DC-9s, they had said in January that they would be making a decision by 2011, which hasnt come out yet, theres the possibility of Delta purchasing Boeing 737s, Airbus A320s, or The Bombardier CSeries.

And United Continental, now having both the choice to expand their Airbus narrow-body fleet or their Boeing narrow-body fleet , they are considering a big purchase to replace some older A320s and 757s, this decision could be announced later this year.

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