Manufacturers face critical decision as the market gets cloudier

Even as Airbus and Boeing struggle with their next narrow-body programs, Forecast International expects they, and new entrants, will produce 11,844 large commercial transports over the next decade, a production, the Connecticut-based company estimates will be valued at USD1.41 trillion in constant US dollars. But it is the decisions the companies are facing now, as the market becomes more crowded and less clear, that will mark them for some time, according to Forecast International.