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For numerous of us, the New Year is about formation resolutions - but for rival planemakers Airbus SA and Boeing Co., 2009 will exist about keeping promises.

Both meet face to face work challenges in getting their delayed flagship jets to airline customers who are eager to put newer, less fuel-hungry jets into love.

The Chicago-based planemaker is beset by problems with its 787, which analysts say air greater than the troubles Airbus faced by means of its A380 superjumbo.

Boeing last month announced a fifth set of delays for its long-haul 787 that determine set back delivery for two years. Analysts said multiple problems with everything from inventiveness to parts and suppliers could push the timetable even further back.

Sandy Morris, an analyst at ABN Amro in London, said Boeing’s problems with the 787 are “in a different league” than those faced by Airbus through the A380 because they seep deeper into the design and production step. Airbus mishandled what was essentially a problem of “two wires being also short and not concourse,” he said.

Scott Hamilton, an aviation consultant and managing director of Leeham Co. in Washington, D.C., declared the 787 problems are “very much more systemic than they were with the A380 and will take longer to determination.”

The 787 is designed as a mid-sized, long-haul jet that seats betwixt 210 to 330 passengers. It will be the capital large passenger jet made with a lightweight composite fuselage, making it about 20 percent more fuel prime mover than the 767 it is replacing. The elementary delivery is now scheduled for the first quarter of 2010.

Hamilton aforesaid Boeing will find it intricate to keep its current “aggressive timetable.”

The problems are heightened by the numbers of customers waiting for the 787: at 910 that’s more than four state of things the customers for the A380.

Marko Lukovic, an industry analyst with Frost & Sullivan consultancy in London, said that despite the problems, the hot-selling plane “is a product that is worth waiting for.”

Two years ago, it was Airbus’s flagship jet that hit the headlines with wiring problems and a series of management missteps which cost the planemaker billions.

Investigators are still looking into stock sales through company executives and shareholders at the aerospace and defense giant before a June 2006 promulgation of delays for the A380. Airbus parent EADS shares tumbled 26 percent in one day at what time those problems were revealed.

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