Third quarter data from Airbus and Boeing confirms that the order boom of the last couple of years is finally slowing.

But the two protagonists have still racked up 1,360 sales between them this year, pushing their combined backlog up by a further 200 aircraft.

Total net orders for year stand at 1,360, which is 20% down on the first nine months of last year. Some 398 net orders were placed in the third quarter, compared with 522 in the same period last year.

Airbus has extended the lead it held at the six-month mark, with 737 orders against 623 of its rival. Driving its success is the A330, which has already accumulated 138 orders in 2008, just 12 shy of its sales in the first nine months of 2007.

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