On 1 March, a KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Boeing 767-300ER became the 8,000th commercial jet airliner to be delivered by Boeing. On average, Boeing has delivered airliners at the rate of one every 1.2 working days since the first 707 was handed over to Pan American World Airways in August 1958. Boeing's 8,000 jet airliners represent around 54% of the worldwide total of 14,700 commercial jet airliners made since 1952. The combined fleet of Boeing jets have carried more than 16.3 billion passengers and flown about 130 billion passenger miles.
Source: Flight International
