A new record from Airbus: 1109 orders and 718 deliveries in 2017

Why is it that the Airbus order book is always larger than Boeing. Yet, Boeing has more deliveries each year going back to 2012. Could it be that Airbus is recording MOU's and commitments that never become firm orders?

Seems Boeing was "crowing" a bit too soon - again. Merkans are such boastful people.

No a syntax is something governments levy on brothels

gee - Boeing is different to this - I do not think so...........

don't worry...next economic shock will dry up a lot of that backlog...

OK, so with a 1-year delivery deficit of almost 400 units, and a current backlog of 7,265 units - unless they close the order book they will never catch up. As it stands, the backlog is already over 10 years (based on 2017 delivery count). So any airline ordering an Airbus now has a long, long wait.