Newest facts: 139 orders of A380s. (Before first flight) Similar information is being kept secret by Boeing. Only orders from 1985 on are available. But I find them anyway: Boeing 747: Orders until 1971 (two years after first flight): 204 orders. Astonishing, isn't it?
airbus will go to luxury private and military, boeing will be the major air carrier, airlines are in the red, cheap is better and airbus is building expensive luxury planes, I'd prefer to fly airbus in a perfect world, but if ev erything goes sideways, I'm going boeing