Boeing outsold Airbus last year for first time since 2018, deliveries rise to 600

Boeing logged nett orders for 1,173 airplanes past year, marking the archetypal clip it outsold its European rival Airbus since 2018, the latest motion of Boeing's recovery.

Boeing handed implicit 63 jetliners to customers past month, bringing its yearly transportation full to 600 aircraft, the most successful 7 years, earlier 2 deadly crashes and a big of different problems derailed its output. Forty-four of those deliveries were 737 Maxes, Boeing said Tuesday.

Airbus inactive delivered much craft past twelvemonth than Boeing, with 793, though that sum is beneath the grounds 863 airplanes the European shaper handed implicit successful 2019. Airbus had 889 nett orders for 2025.

Engine and different proviso concatenation issues proceed to clasp up craft deliveries. Deliveries are cardinal for airplane manufacturers due to the fact that airlines wage the bulk of a jet's terms erstwhile they person the plane.

Boeing's nett orders past period totaled 174 planes, including much than 100 737 Maxes for Alaska Airlines, which the Seattle bearer announced past week. Delta Air Lines earlier Tuesday said it ordered astatine slightest 30 Boeing 787 Dreamliners, its archetypal for the wide-body plane. Deliveries are starting successful the aboriginal 2030s, a motion of however airlines are locking successful transportation slots into the adjacent decennary to regenerate older jets and grow.

Boeing executives are scheduled to sermon the manufacturer's accumulation program erstwhile the institution reports quarterly results connected Jan. 27.