Current Order Tally: 8894 Orders
Well, the countdown got off to a fairly inauspicious start. For the period from the 1st to the 12th of July Boeing took an order for 1 737 to a Business Jet customer, but recorded a cancellation for 35 from Dubai Aerospace Enterprise, which has been shedding aircraft orders for the past year in the wake of the global financial crisis, including another 32 737s earlier in the year. Applying that to the end-of-June figure, the 737 order book now stands at 8894 aircraft. I'm not privy to day-to-day delivery figures, so I can't say for sure what the current backlog is. Boeing updates its delivery figures on a monthly basis, so I will do the same unless someone can provide me with reliable delivery figures.
Hopefully this backtracking is only temporary: numerous sources are reporting that American Airlines is poised to place a large order for narrowbody aircraft, possibly split between the Boeing 737 and the Airbus A320. If the reports are true, this might be the order that takes the 737 past the 9,000 mark.
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