We do require firm orders to get into the queue.
Boeing now has firm orders for more than 800 of the planes.
Boeing has yet to receive firm orders for the 7E7.
Twelve companies took part, several of which obtained firm orders, while other business is in the pipeline.
Boeing has firm orders to build 1,603 planes, worth about $80 billion, in the next four to five years.
More than half of the $10.3 billion figure represented options rather than firm orders.
Drug companies want firm orders from donors before they try to triple production.
Only his immediate and firm order to hold stopped them, but it was an unwilling obedience.
And the governor made no attempt to issue firm orders about a thing.
Since 2004, Boeing has received firm orders for 360 787's from 25 customers.