Dow Jones Newswires | Boeing Co. said Thursday that an unidentified customer had canceled an order for six of its new 787 aircraft, though it gained two orders for the larger 777.

The cancellation leaves the aerospace group with 850 orders from 57 customers for the aircraft, which is scheduled for delivery to launch customers All Nippon Airways Co. in the fourth quarter, some two-and-a-half years behind schedule. The number of customers remains the same as last week.

Boeing and rival Airbus have said the pace of cancellation and deferral
requests has abated since the start of the year, and both have
“overbooked” orders and are eying production increases as airline and
finance market conditions improve.

The U.S. group said it had
received another two orders fro its 777 from unidentified customers,
adding to the 20 secured the previous week.

Net orders this year
through May 11 stand at 108, including 28 cancellations, 16 of them for
the 787.

Boeing also said that four previously unidentified 777
orders came from FedEx Corp.