Both plane makers agree that passenger traffic will nearly triple in 20 years.

The plane maker will also reduce the number of temporary employees.

While business is booming at the plane maker, many of its customers are struggling.

Those thirty-five years had never been easy for the American plane makers to accept.

In the last two years United has given the Seattle-based plane maker about $23.4 billion in business.

The world's largest plane maker, Boeing is making a push into the market for air-traffic-control gear.

So plane makers were told to build aircraft that could shed those tiny droplets.

And after the Persian Gulf war, the airline industry went into a bad slump, taking plane makers with it.

The plane maker got interest-bearing notes that can be converted into about 16 percent of common stock in Allegis.

Based on the 2011 order figures, Airbus holds a 64% share of the orders placed with the world's two largest plane makers.