booking order

Before the crash, the aircraft had been a great success, with Airbus booking orders for 319 of the short- to medium-range 150-seat planes.

Arends salesmen, who for years had to rely mainly on sales of parts and service, are again booking orders for new equipment.

"It sounds like an overly aggressive sales force was out there booking orders as sales," said Charles Phillips, an analyst with the Soundview Financial Group.

According to the Press Association, Japan, Malaysia and Oman are interested in booking orders for the Typhoon with a new updated radar system.

Sun Microsystems Inc is claiming it's booking orders and delivering production units of Viking-based Sparcstation 10s in volume as it promised it would.

In addition, the hospitality sector received a major boost due to the games, as hotels and guest houses received large booking orders from people who were coming to see the Games - media-persons, delegates, officials, visitors, sports-persons, etc.

A funny thing happened while the United States was crying foul over Europe's subsidies to its aircraft maker Airbus: Boeing, the embattled American manufacturer in need of Washington's helping hand, suddenly started booking orders for planes.