Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg says he doesn't expect the U.S. trade war with China to get in the way of its its financial recovery and aircraft delivery targets even though Chinese airlines are refusing to accept the company's planes.

China Southern Airlines did not directly disclose the reason behind the decision to cancel the tender for the sale of ten Boeing 787-8s.

A Boeing jet earmarked for China was returning to the United States on Friday, flight tracking data showed, as the planemaker's flagship delivery plant outside Shanghai was drawn into a deepening tariff war between Beijing and Washington.