11.   The jet order has been on hold since then.

12.   Though its commercial aircraft business is booming now, Boeing has suffered in the past when jet orders dried up.

13.   To help fill record commercial jet orders, Boeing is more than doubling its aircraft production rates.

14.   But China Airlines spokesman Hamilton Liu said although interest groups had lobbied hard for the jet order, it was ultimately a business decision.

15.   Unlike other commercial jet orders, Boeing announces its business jet orders once per year.

16.   With such declines, analysts have said Boeing layoffs would be inevitable as jet orders are affected.

17.   The French contender battling Boeing Co. of the United States for a major South Korean fighter jet order warned Thursday that it might take legal action over the deal.