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Boeing Co. said Monday the Asian financial crisis may delay the delivery of as many as 60 of its jetliners over the next three years because of slower growth in airline traffic in the region.
The world’s biggest aircraft firm could see up to 20 deliveries a year pushed back through the year 2000, said Gordon McHenry, director of airline industry analysis for Boeing.
The Seattle-based company still expects to deliver the jets in the following years, starting in 2001, when it expects economies to rebound, he said.
Any pressure on earnings will be relatively minor, he said. “We expect to deliver 550 aircraft next year,” McHenry said. “You are talking about the risk of 20 against 550.”
