The bright spot was the military business, which surpassed the airplane unit with revenue of $6.3 billion, up 18percentt.
The bride's father works in Auburn, Wash., as an analyst for the fabrication division of the commercial airplane unit of Boeing.
First Choice, a vacation provider, will buy six 7E7's, while Blue Panorama, a Rome-based charter airline, will buy four, Marlin Dailey, vice president for European sales at Boeing's commercial airplane unit, said at a London news conference.
James F. Albaugh, chief executive of Boeing's commercial airplane unit, said his company would raise the production rate of the 737 model to 35 aircraft per month from 31.5 early next year, to 38 in the second quarter of 2013 and finally to 42 in the first half of 2014, to service a backlog of 2,100 orders.
After dismissing the head of the airplane unit in September and installing Alan R. Mulally, who played a key role in developing the 777, Mr. Condit said that Boeing was committed to increasing productivity and still thought the company could achieve double-digit profit margins, though he would not say when.
The airplane unit wasn't keeping up with Gulfstream, so on the block it went.
"Of all the airplanes that we've built, there is one that is identified more closely with Boeing than any other, and that's the 747," said James Albaugh, head of Boeing's commercial airplane unit.
The cuts at Boeing are coming in its commercial airplanes unit, which is expecting fewer orders.
Relations between the engineers and the company had grown increasingly bitter in recent days, and Alan Mulally, head of the company's commercial airplanes unit, said on Monday that some engineers were "maliciously attacking our company and deliberately trying to destroy our reputation" by telling airlines and government officials that new airplanes were unsafe for delivery.
The insurer American International Group reported late Thursday that it lost $4 billion in the last three months of 2012 as it absorbed billions of dollars of losses related to damage caused by Hurricane Sandy and the sale of its airplane leasing unit.
