Boeing re-captured the crown as the world’s largest maker of passenger jets last year, overtaking Airbus for the first time in a decade as it recovered from delays on its new Dreamliner 787, only to face new problems on Thursday with the grounding of 787s over battery safety concerns.
“I honestly wish all the best to my colleagues at Boeing to get this aircraft back into service, because an aircraft is designed to fly,” Airbus’s chief executive Fabrice Bregier told a news conference on the EADS subsidiary’s sales.
The world’s dominant planemakers compete agressively for a roughly equal share of the $100 billion civil jet market, though their fortunes have see-sawed in the past two years as first Airbus then Boeing racked up orders for fuel-saving models.
International regulators joined the United States on Thursday in suspending flights of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner while the risk of fire on lithium-ion batteries is investigated following two incidents in the past week.

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