AIA: backlogs for airliners will buoy industry during U.S. crisis
The hundreds of billions of dollars worth of airliner orders now on the books will help insulate aerospace manufacturing companies from the industry crisis

The hundreds of billions of dollars worth of airliner orders now on the books will help insulate aerospace manufacturing companies from the industry crisis now facing U.S. airlines, according to an aerospace manufacturing trade group based near Washington, D.C.

Aerospace Industries Association president Marion Blakey said although U.S. airlines are asking manufacturers to defer orders as they curtail services and lay off workers, foreign carriers have stepped in to occupy those production slots, softening the blow of the industry downturn.