After celebrating its 10th year with record sales of 19 aircraft, Boeing Business Jets has logged 30 sales since last year’s NBAA Convention, said Steve Hill, BBJ president, at a press conference here in the Georgia World Congress Center on Monday. Total value of the orders increased from $2.25 billion last year to $2.9 billion this year. Included in this total are 16 BBJs, two BBJ2s, three BBJ3s, two 747-8 VIPs and seven 787 VIPs. Not included in the total are two more 787s that customers bought from leasing companies to be converted to VIP configurations. A total of 151 BBJ and VIP aircraft have been sold to date.
Regarding these orders, private customers represent 60 percent of sales; government, 7 percent and corporate, 3 percent. By regions, the sales divide into four nearly equal quadrants, said Hill: Middle East (29 percent), North America (26 percent), Europe (23 percent) and the rest of the world [Asia Pacific (17 percent), Africa (3 percent) and Latin America (2 percent)].
