Commercial plane orders slow; jetmakers focus on backlog

The boom in commercial plane orders of recent years appears to be giving way to a more sustainable pace of demand at the 2015 Paris air show, with jetmakers increasingly focused on lifting production to meet their record backlog of sales. U.S. planemaker Boeing (BA.N) and European rival Airbus (AIR.PA) continued to unveil a steady stream of deals on Tuesday, day two of the aerospace industry's main annual gathering. Boeing announced the biggest firm order of the event so far, with Dutch aircraft leasing company AerCap (AER.N) buying 100 737 MAX 8 jets in a deal worth $10.7 billion at list prices, confirming a Reuters report.

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