Boeing expects fewer orders this year

Randy Tinseth, vice president of marketing for Boeing Commercial Airplanes, has said the plane maker expects new orders for commercial aircraft this year to fall short of deliveries and no increase in demand until 2012, Reuters has reported. The company expects to deliver 460 to 465 aircraft in 2010 against 481 last year, a large number of which would be from the short-haul 737 series, Tinseth said. He also said the company expects to see fewer deferrals and cancellations in 2010, compared to 2009 when Boeing had about 270 airplane orders being deferred and around 120 cancelled.