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Boeing and Airbus
Orders 2018 Jan/Feb 2019 Download PDF

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Boeing managed to beat its arch rival Airbus in the order race in 2018. The total number of Boeing aircraft ordered in the year came in at 1,090 against Airbus’s 831. Even after cancellations and changes in the order book net orders for the Seattle based manufacturer came in at 893 units against Toulouse’s 747 (Boeing adopted ASAC 602 in the year which removed some 70 aircraft from the recognised backlog). 

Roughly 20% of each manufacturers' orders were from leasing companies, but there was a significant difference between the two in the distribution of orders by airline operators by region. 20% of the Boeing orders were for carriers in Asia/Pacific — the world’s engine of growth — against 9% for Airbus. But this mostly reflects a massive order from India’s troubled Jet Airways for 150 737s. 

20% of Airbus’s orders each were raised by carriers in Europe and North America against 10% and 13% respectively for Boeing. But then Airbus’s order position was boosted significantly by its acquisition of the Bombardier C-Series programme: Moxy (Neeleman’s potential new US operator), JetBlue and Delta ordered 135 of the (rebranded) A220. 

However it should be noted that 30% of the orders were to customers either undisclosed or unidentified.

As usual the narrowbody workhorses — the 737 and A320 — topped the list, accounting for three quarters of all the orders in the year.

Among the widebodies Boeing continues to make headway with the freighter versions of the 767 and 747, while its flagship 787 Dreamliner seems to be consolidating its position as the long-haul passenger type of choice with 136 new orders in the year. Meanwhile the 777, perhaps the natural replacement for aging 747s as well as older versions of the type, performed modestly well with 59 new orders.

In contrast Airbus experienced a relatively poor year for its widebody offering. A new order for 20 A380s from Emirates was virtually wiped out by 16 cancellations in the year. That order was put in doubt as Emirates re-evaluated its long term fleet strategy in the wake of continued intense capacity competition among the Super-Connectors. Airbus was put under further pressure following Qantas' decision in January to cancel its 8 outstanding orders and stick with the fleet of 12 it has. At its annual results in February Airbus announced that it would stop A380 production in 2021.

Nevertheless Airbus did achieve net orders for 40 A350s and 27 A330s, the latter increasingly seen perhaps as a short haul replacement for and freighter alternative to the 767.

Deliveries in 2018 were similar for each manufacturer with 806 units for Boeing (up from 763 in 2017) and 800 aircraft (against 718 in the previous year) for Airbus — the latter including 20 A220s following its acquisition of the C-Series programme from Bombardier in the second half of the year.

BOEING ORDERS 2018
Customer 737 747 767 777 787 Total
Asia/Pacific ANA 2 2
Jeju 40 40
Jet Airways 150 150
Qantas 6 6
Vistara 6 6
Total 190 2 12 204
Europe Lufthansa 2 2
Ryanair 25 25
SkyUp 6 6
SWISS 2 2
TAROM 5 5
TUI Travel 2 2
THY 3 25 28
Utair 30 30
Total 68 7 25 100
MEAF Air Peace 10 10
Qatar 5 5
Total 10 5 15
CIS Turkmenistan 3 3
Uzbekistan 1 1
Total CIS 3 1 4
N America American 25 25
DHL 10 10
FedEx 11 12 23
Hawaiian 10 10
Southwest 40 40
United 13 13
UPS 14 9 23
Total 40 14 20 22 48 144
GOL 15 15
Total S America 15 15
Lessors ALC 38 3 41
Aviation Capital 23 23
BOC Aviation 11 3 9 23
Boeing Capital 75 2 30 107
Goshawk 20 20
Jackson Square 30 30
Novus 4 4
Total 197 9 42 248
Unidentified Customers 297 4 14 8 323
Government/Private 17 20 37
Gross Orders 837 18 40 59 136 1,090
Cancelled/Changes (162) (8) (27) (197)
Net Orders 675 18 40 51 109 893
AIRBUS ORDERS 2018
Customer A220 A320 A330 A350 A380 Total
Asia/Pacific ANZ 2 2
Druk Air 1 1
Sichuan 10 10
Vietjet 52 52
Vistara 13 13
Total 68 10 78
Europe Aegean 30 30
easyJet 17 17
IAG 2 2
Lufthansa 32 32
SAS 35 1 36
SWISS 10 10
THY 25 25
Total 124 3 25 152
MEAF Emirates 20 20
Kuwait 8 8
Salam Air 1 1
SaudiGulf 10 10
Total 11 8 20 39
N America Allegiant 1 1
Delta 15 10 25
JetBlue 60 60
Moxy 60 60
Spirit 5 5
Total 135 6 10 151
Viva Aerobus 25 25
Total S America 25 25
Lessor Avolon 100 100
BOC Aviation 3 3
CALC 15 15
Goshawk 20 20
Macquarie 20 20
Total 158 4 158
Undisclosed 184 12 27 223
Government/Private 1 4 5
Gross orders 135 577 37 62 20 831
Cancelled (36) (10) (22) (16) (84)
Net Orders 135 541 27 40 4 747
BOEING DELIVERIES 2018
737 767 777 787 747 Total
Asia/Pacific 159 13 54 226 28%
Europe 108 5 22 139 17%
MEAF 19 20 14 53 7%
Russia CIS 1 1 2 4
N America 124 17 7 18 6 172 21%
S America 16 2 18 2%
Lessors 132 31 163 20%
Other* 21† 10 2 32 4%
Total 580 27 46 145 6 806 100%

Note: *Other=Government, Private and Unidentified. †Inc 1xBBJ. 

AIRBUS DELIVERIES 2018
A220 A320 A330 A350 A380 Total
Asia/Pacific 4 193 32 43 3 275 34%
Europe 10 104 8 9 131 16%
MEAF 2 6 18 9 35 4%
Russia/CIS
N America 4 80 5 89 11%
S America 17 4 21 3%
Lessors 225 4 14 243 30%
Other* 1 5 1%
Total 20 626 49 93 12 800 100%

ORDER BACKLOG DEC 2018

Boeing Airbus
476 A220
737 4,763 6,056 A320
767 111 295 A330
777 431
787 622 659 A350
747 24 87 A380
Total 5,951 7,573
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