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CHICAGO (AP) - Boeing Co. said Tuesday it delivered 62 commercial airplanes in the third quarter, its lowest total for the period in a decade due to the strike by assembly workers that ended last week.
Boeing has been working with its airline customers to reschedule the 25 to 30 airplane deliveries that originally were scheduled for September but were delayed because of the four-week strike. The company is expected to make them up in the coming months with overtime work, although it has not disclosed details.
The 62 planes delivered in the July-through-September period were five fewer than a year earlier and left Boeing with a total of 217 deliveries this year going into the fourth quarter. Before the strike, it had expected to deliver 320 airplanes in 2005.
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