Airbus CEO Faury says Boeing to likely win annual order race, Reuters says

Airbus (EADSY) CEO Guillaume Faury said it was possible Boeing (BA) would win in the annual order race for the first time in six years, Tim Hepher of Reuters reports, citing comments made on France Inter. Aribus currently remains ahead of Boeing in both deliveries and its pipeline of outstanding orders. However, Boeing recently posted 908 orders after cancellations between January and November, compared to 700 for Airbus. “The fact that we have been ahead on orders for five years means our order backlog is much higher than that of our main competitor,” Faury told the French radio station. “But it is true that they have been helped by the American president as part of tariff negotiations with several countries, where plane orders became part of the resolution of trade disputes.”