Boeing’s 787 under pressure as Russia’s Aeroflot cancels order
Boeing Co
faced additional uncertainty on Wednesday over future production rates for its 787 Dreamliner after Russian carrier Aeroflot formally cancelled an order for 22 aircraft valued at about $5.5bn at list prices.
The cancellation,
first reported by the Seattle Times and buried in Boeing’s monthly order release, is the final step in unwinding an order that had been shrouded in uncertainty ever since the airline said in 2015 it no longer needed the planes.
But the lost business
theoretically knocks a hole in the production profile for the 787 Dreamliner after the world’s largest plane-maker increased its build-rate to 14 aircraft a month from 12 at twin US factories.
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