It also cut its estimates of total plane deliveries for 2011 to 480 from between 485 and 495.
With the plane deliveries scheduled to begin in 2010, he added, "this gives them time to get their marketing and their operations right and hopefully win back some customers".
And the increase in plane deliveries in the second quarter helped drive a rebound in that part of Boeing's business, which had slipped behind its military work in total revenue and profit.
In a joint letter dated Oct. 11, airlines from Europe and the United States proposed limiting to 20 percent of new plane deliveries the export-credit backing that an airline can receive each year.
This year the plane most in demand looks to be the 737MAX, a re-engined version of Boeing's short-haul plane, deliveries of which are due to start in 2017.At Boeing's Renton factory near Seattle the existing version of the 737 is now being turned out at a record rate of 35 a month, after a recent speeding-up of the two assembly lines.
And quite soon Airbus will catch up to Boeing in plane deliveries.
A surge in Airbus plane deliveries helped European Aeronautic Defence & Space to more than triple its profit in the third quarter, the company said Thursday as it raised its earnings forecast.
But, thanks to a big boost in defense spending (Boeing also won a $4.4 billion order recently from South Korea), it has an adequate cushion for experimentation, even with plane deliveries likely to fall 28% this year.
The result of this approach is voice service (control and media planes) delivery as a flow of data within the LTE data bearer.
Mr. McKinley, a 25-year-old shipping clerk at a New York warehouse, journeyed overnight about 1,500 miles by truck, plane and delivery van before startling his parents by popping out of the box at their home on Saturday.
He declined to say how many seats would be dedicated to premium-class passengers or give any further details about the cabin fittings before the plane's delivery in October.
