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Paris 2011: Boeing Vows To Defend Lower Reaches of Narrowbody Market

Boeing intends to defend the segment of the market where its 7

By Gregory Polek • Senior Editor

June 19, 2011

Boeing intends to defend the segment of the market where its 737-700 resides, at least with incremental product improvements in the “medium term” future and possibly with an all new airplane to appear in 2019 or 2020, according to Nicole Piasecki, Boeing Commercial Airplanes’ vice president of business development. That bit of information might particularly interest Brazil’s Embraer, which continues to wait for Boeing to announce a decision on an eventual successor to today’s 737NG before it commits to a new program of its own.

Analysts have speculated that Boeing could abandon what now constitutes the lower reaches of the narrowbody market, particularly if it opted to build an all-new airplane. Such a move, they argue, could leave an opening for Embraer to develop a 130- to 150-seat narrowbody of its own and help the Bombardier C Series gain more traction in its 110- to 145-seat segment.

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