Boeing's 787 Dreamliner faces new challenge: Slow sales
Boeing's high-tech 787 Dreamliner has had its share of trouble, from early production delays to batteries that smoked and burned, grounding the worldwide fleet for months in 2013. Now the company's flagship plane is facing a new challenge: slowing sales. Boeing needs to sell dozens of 787s to help recover nearly US$30b it has spent on production and not yet accounted for in its earnings. But the industry is in a sales slump. Sales of Boeing and Airbus wide body jets have fallen 51% since 2013, and some analysts and investors predict that without more 787 sales in the near term, Boeing will have to take a sizable charge to write off some of the 787's deferred costs. Boeing has sold 1,154 so far, however, the tally falls short of the 1,300 planes Boeing is using as the basis of deferring the charges in its accounting. <br/>
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Boeing's 787 Dreamliner faces new challenge: Slow sales
Boeing's high-tech 787 Dreamliner has had its share of trouble, from early production delays to batteries that smoked and burned, grounding the worldwide fleet for months in 2013. Now the company's flagship plane is facing a new challenge: slowing sales. Boeing needs to sell dozens of 787s to help recover nearly US$30b it has spent on production and not yet accounted for in its earnings. But the industry is in a sales slump. Sales of Boeing and Airbus wide body jets have fallen 51% since 2013, and some analysts and investors predict that without more 787 sales in the near term, Boeing will have to take a sizable charge to write off some of the 787's deferred costs. Boeing has sold 1,154 so far, however, the tally falls short of the 1,300 planes Boeing is using as the basis of deferring the charges in its accounting. <br/>
