"I think you have to call the programme a success now, " said Nick Cunningham, an aerospace analyst at Citigroup Smith Barney.

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Evolution Securities analyst Nick Cunningham believes they have a good chance of getting it because circumstances are very different to prior attempts.

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Nick Cunningham, an analyst at Citigroup Smith Barney in London, worries that the aircraft makers are seeing a repeat of the telecoms-equipment boom of the late 1990s.

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