US aircraft manufacturer Boeing has reported nine orders of its new freighter planes in May and twice as many cancellations, which included a switch of a delivery slot for a 747 freighter for parcel firm UPS.
According to Boeing, the scrapped orders included 14 of its still-grounded 737 Max jets. Boeing’s net order tally for the year now stands at negative 602, consisting of 58 new orders, 322 jets formally cancelled, and 338 orders classed as “not firm enough” to be counted as official backlog.
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