Record number of commercial aircraft orders at Boeing for 2005

Orders for aircraft were up, way up, for Boeing in 2005.

I notice, however, that how the company fared in comparison to Airbus has spawned a couple of different headlines.

The International Herald Tribune has a Bloomberg News article, dateline Seattle, headlined Boeing logs more orders than Airbus.

The Scotsman has a Reuters article, dateline Paris, headlined Airbus 2005 orders similar to those of Boeing.

At any rate, it looks to have been a gangbuster year in aviation orders. From the International Herald Tribune article:

...Boeing said Thursday that its commercial-aircraft orders more than tripled to a record 1,002 planes last year on demand from Asian and Middle Eastern carriers, as it overtook Airbus in customer requests for the first time in five years.

The orders surpassed its previous record for 606 planes set in 1998, according to Boeing's Web site. Airbus, which is the world's largest commercial aircraft maker based on deliveries, had orders for 687 planes at the end of November and expects to release its year-end total Jan. 17.

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Boeing's orders included requests for 569 of the company's 737s, 235 of its 787s and 154 of its 777s - all records for those models...