And now for a reality check

Published 9:00 pm Thursday, February 9, 2006

As I’ve noted before, now that Boeing has sold all these airplanes, the big challenge for it and its suppliers will be building them. Bloomberg’s James Gunsalus takes a look at this issue: http://www.nwanews.com/adg/Business/144918/

Key Quote: “‘The good news is there is a bulge of work in front of Boeing and Airbus that will take about 10 years to digest,’ said Paul Nisbet, an analyst at Newport, R. I.-based JSA Research Inc. ‘Not choking on the work in the first three years will be the real test.’”