Boeing and Airbus:
Orders, Deliveries and Production 2024
Nov/Dec 2024
Airbus trounced its duopolist arch rival Boeing in the 2024 annual order and delivery race.
Both manufacturers continued to have supply-chain bottlenecks limiting the ability to build production rates. But Airbus did not have the additional problem of its regulator breathing down its neck in annoyance (and embarassment) at certification errors.
In 2024 Airbus managed to deliver 766 aircraft, slightly up from the 735 sold in 2023. It still plans to build production rates of its A320 workhorse to 75 a month by 2027, but last year they went out the door of the production line at the rate of 50 a month. Airlines in the Asia/Pacific and European regions and leasing companies were each recipients of around a quarter of the company’s output, North American carriers a bit below this level.
| Region | A220 | A320 | A330 | A350 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asia/Pacific | 4 | 171 | 3 | 16 | 194 | 25% |
| Europe | 17 | 120 | 6 | 25 | 168 | 22% |
| Latin America | 28 | 28 | 4% | |||
| MEAF | 18 | 1 | 5 | 24 | 3% | |
| North America | 35 | 87 | 5 | 7 | 134 | 18% |
| Lessors | 19 | 175 | 15 | 4 | 213 | 28% |
| Commercial Deliveries | 75 | 599 | 30 | 57 | 761 | |
| Airbus Defence and Space | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Private | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Total | 75 | 602 | 32 | 57 | 766 |
Boeing shipped less than half that volume: 348 units down from the 528 it sent to customers in 2023. Airlines in Asia/Pacific and North America each accounted for 30% of the total; European carriers and lessors a mere 15% each.
| Region | 737 | 767 | 777 | 787 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asia/Pacific | 75 | 5 | 18 | 98 | 30% | |
| Europe | 44 | 5 | 6 | 55 | 17% | |
| Latin America | 14 | 14 | 4% | |||
| MEAF | 11 | 3 | 9 | 23 | 7% | |
| North America | 80 | 10 | 6 | 96 | 29% | |
| Lessors | 33 | 1 | 12 | 46 | 14% | |
| Commercial deliveries | 257 | 10 | 14 | 51 | 332 | |
| Government | 6 | 8 | 14 | |||
| Unidentified | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Total | 265 | 18 | 14 | 51 | 348 |
Airbus has decisively outsold Boeing in each of the past six years — since the quality issues of the 737MAX8 and 787 emerged.
This performance is also reflected in the order profile for 2024. Boeing registered 569 gross orders — dominated by 737 orders in Europe and widebody oders in the Middle East. But after accounting for cancellations net orders plumeted to 377 from the prior year level of 1,311. It still has a backlog of 6,245 aircraft, including 4,778 737MAX8.
Airbus in contrast garnered 876 new orders (826 after accounting for cancellations). 40% of the orders came from airlines in the Asia/Pacific region, and surprisingly only 10% from leasing companies. The company retains an unfulfilled backlog of 8,658 aircraft at the end of 2024, including 7,210 orders for its A320 family.
| Customer | 737 | 767 | 777 | 787 | Total Result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asia/Pacific | EVA Air | 4 | 4 | ||||
| Japan Airlines | 10 | 10 | |||||
| Royal Brunei | 4 | 4 | |||||
| Silk Way West | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Asia/Pacific Total | 1 | 18 | 19 | 3% | |||
| Europe | Avia Solutions | 40 | 40 | ||||
| Luxair | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Pegasus | 100 | 100 | |||||
| TUI Travel | 10 | 10 | |||||
| Turkish | 4 | 4 | |||||
| Europe Total | 152 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 156 | 27% | |
| MEAF | EL AL | 20 | 3 | 23 | |||
| Emirates | 10 | 10 | |||||
| Ethiopian | 8 | 8 | |||||
| flydubai | 30 | 30 | |||||
| Qatar | 20 | 20 | |||||
| MEAF Total | 20 | 38 | 33 | 91 | 16% | ||
| N America | Alaska | 6 | 6 | ||||
| American | 85 | 85 | |||||
| National | 4 | 4 | |||||
| North America Total | 91 | 4 | 95 | 17% | |||
| LATAM | 10 | 10 | |||||
| South America Total | 10 | 10 | 2% | ||||
| Lessors | BOC Aviation | 14 | 14 | ||||
| Altavair | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Aviation Capital | 35 | 35 | |||||
| Macquarie | 20 | 20 | |||||
| Lessors Total | 69 | 1 | 70 | 12% | |||
| Unidentified | 83 | 8 | 16 | 2 | 109 | ||
| Government/Military | 2 | 15 | 2 | 19 | |||
| Gross Orders | 417 | 23 | 66 | 63 | 569 | ||
| Changes/Cancelled | 173 | 4 | 15 | 192 | |||
| Net Orders | 244 | 23 | 62 | 48 | 377 | ||
| Backlog | 4,778 | 109 | 562 | 796 | 6,245 |
| Customer | A220 | A320 | A330 | A350 | A350F | Total Result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asia/Pacific | Air India | 90 | 10 | 100 | ||||
| AirCalin | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| Cathay Pacific | 30 | 30 | ||||||
| Cebu Pacific | 70 | 70 | ||||||
| Druk Air | 5 | 5 | ||||||
| Indigo | 10 | 30 | 40 | |||||
| JAL | 11 | 21 | 32 | |||||
| Korean | 33 | 33 | ||||||
| Starlux | 3 | 5 | 8 | |||||
| Uzbekistan | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| Vietjet | 20 | 20 | ||||||
| Asia/Pacific total | 188 | 53 | 96 | 5 | 342 | 39% | ||
| Europe | AirBaltic | 10 | 10 | |||||
| British Airways | 5 | 5 | ||||||
| Iberia | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Jet2 | 36 | 36 | ||||||
| Virgin Atlantic | 7 | 7 | ||||||
| Europe total | 10 | 41 | 7 | 1 | 59 | 7% | ||
| MEAF | Air Algerie | 3 | 3 | |||||
| Berniq | 6 | 6 | ||||||
| Ethiopian | 11 | 11 | ||||||
| Riyadh Air | 60 | 60 | ||||||
| Royal Jet | 3 | 3 | ||||||
| Saudia | 51 | 51 | ||||||
| MEAF total | 120 | 3 | 11 | 134 | 15% | |||
| N America | Air Canada | 5 | 5 | |||||
| American | 86 | 86 | ||||||
| Delta | 20 | 20 | ||||||
| N America total | 5 | 86 | 20 | 111 | 13% | |||
| Lessors | CDB Leasing | 80 | 80 | |||||
| Nordic Aviation Capital | 7 | 7 | ||||||
| Lessors total | 87 | 87 | 10% | |||||
| Undisclosed | 110 | 15 | 6 | 131 | ||||
| Private Customer | 5 | 3 | 8 | |||||
| Airbus Defence and Space | 4 | 4 | ||||||
| Gross Orders | 15 | 637 | 82 | 137 | 5 | 876 | ||
| Changes/Cancellations | 24 | 22 | 4 | 50 | ||||
| Net Orders | -9 | 615 | 82 | 133 | 5 | 826 | ||
| Backlog | 516 | 7,210 | 230 | 647 | 55 | 8,658 |
