India leads a boom in orders for passenger jets
But can manufacturers make them in time? And will the clients still be around to receive them?
Traditions abound at the annual airshow that rotates between Paris and Farnborough. One is visitors’ observation that a glittering capital city, with the Eiffel Tower visible through the haze at the end of the runway, is preferable to a British town so unremarkable that its main attraction is its biennial airshow. Another is complaints about the heat from those trudging airstrips covered in commercial jets, fighter planes, helicopters and other pieces of high-tech kit.
This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “Jet stream”
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