Engine maker CFM International is targeting around 600 orders this year after taking 303 in the first five months of the year, its chief executive said in Paris ahead of Le Bourget Airshow.

"If we have 600 at end of year, I will be happy," CFM International CEO Eric Bachelet said. The company had fewer than five cancellations by May, he said.

Bachelet added that he was confident on deliveries to early 2010 but had less visibility thereafter.

CFM is a jet engine joint venture between General Electric and France's Safran.