Falling orders fail to calm Boeing and Airbus’s transatlantic rivalry

The manufacturers will continue to scrap over widebody planes, but a new front has opened with regional jetsThe latest skirmish in the never-ending war between Airbus and Boeing, the duopoly at the heart of the commercial aerospace industry, will be fought at the Farnborough airshow this week.It has not been a vintage year for either half of this great corporate rivalry as they vied for new aircraft orders without much success. The American producer Boeing has snagged orders for 306 planes so fa