Among many who once built big passenger planes, only Boeing and Airbus Industrie still do.
Boeing versus Airbus is one of the most hard-fought, closely watched marketing battles out there.
A380 may be rather brighter than either Boeing or Airbus's critics would like to think.
Although Boeing and Airbus dominate the global narrow-body jet market, the competition is making gains.
Boeing and Airbus can also draw comfort from signs of a revival in air travel.
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Only two were built because Chinese airline bosses preferred newer models from Boeing and Airbus.
Meanwhile Americans and Europeans are, once again, spitting at each other about subsidies to Boeing and Airbus.
It is an auspicious time for three emerging rivals to the Boeing-Airbus duopoly to seek to establish themselves.
Boeing and Airbus design modern, complex airplanes to be flown by two equals.
Boeing and Airbus could stick with their existing products, steadily squeezing out improvements.
Whether or not Luo is right, neither Boeing nor Airbus is standing still.
Groh notes that Boeing and Airbus have 5, 000 orders lined up between them.
By the 1990s, the airline had more than 50 Boeing and Airbus jets flying to 39 cities in 20 countries.
Early sales campaigns for Boeing rival Airbus A380 super-jumbo envisioned cocktail lounges, casinos--even staterooms--making flying more like a luxury cruise.
Some in the group fly more than 300, 000 miles a year and tell people their residence is Boeing or Airbus.
Boeing and Airbus have dominated the commercial aircraft market with their 100 to 200 seat A320 and 737 families of aircraft.
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China's aviation industry has learnt a lot from making increasingly sophisticated parts for Boeing and Airbus over the past 20 years.
Previous airliners from Boeing, Airbus and other manufacturers have used a combination of electrical and mechanical power drawn from a plane's engines.
The company numbers Boeing, Airbus and Lockheed Martin among its customers of propulsion-system components and aerostructures--such items as engine housings and fuselage parts.
Apart from the full line competitors, of Boeing and Airbus, MRJ must face off directly with the well-established Canadian Bombardier and Brazilian Embraer.
From engine overhauls, to drilling out rivets to fixing faulty flaps, Boeing and Airbus-made passenger jet repairs are increasingly being done in third-world countries.
This industry is dominated by two firms, Boeing and Airbus Industrie.
Getting it right is crucial for Boeing and Airbus: last year the 737 and the A320 represented respectively 77% and 81% of their deliveries nearly 1, 000 aircraft.
Plans to update its fleet will take place over several years, as AMR said in July that it will buy 460 new jets from Boeing and Airbus.
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The downturn in the air travel market over the past couple of years has led to a fierce battle between Boeing and Airbus to win new orders.
Before Boeing or Airbus (the only two companies that now make big jets) go ahead, they need to be sure that enough airlines will sign up as launch customers.
Much of the untapped demand in Indonesia is at smaller airports that wouldn't generate enough passengers to fill the Boeing or Airbus planes Lion Air has ordered, analysts said.
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In this it was even ahead of Boeing and Airbus, both now scrambling to transform themselves from rich-world exporters into global producers, with long, difficult-to-manage supply chains spanning the world.
Boeing and Airbus are rivals in a market which has got much tighter since the 11 September attacks on the World Trade Centre precipitated a downturn in civilian air travel.
The commercial aircraft market is now starting to recover, led by Asian commercial carriers like Singapore Airlines (see story, p. 122), which are placing big orders with Boeing and Airbus.
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