Airbus Booked 1,419 Orders In 2011

Airbus closed out its 2011 record year with $588 billion commercial airline orders in its backlog (or 4,437 aircraft), after booking 1,419 net orders.

The order intake includes 1,226 firm A320NEOs, not including the deal for 130 aircraft with American Airlines which Airbus previously listed as firm. Other deals were ...