Rebounding from a poor year, Boeing delivered 45 commercial jets in January
Boeing had a strong start to the year in terms of deliveries, with 45 aircraft shipped to customers in January. In addition, the US planemaker closed two orders for 36 737 MAX and 777F aircraft.
After a tumultuous 2024 that began with the door plug of an Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 escaping in flight and ended with a painful strike and a loss of almost $12 billion, the company posted its best January since the pandemic.
While in January 2021 there were only 26 aircraft and in 2022, 32 jets, Boeing delivered 38 planes the following year, but dropped to 27 planes in 2024.
Of the 45 commercial aircraft, 40 were 737 MAX, its workhorse and which has been under public scrutiny since the two fatal accidents involving Ethiopian Airlines and Lion Air planes.
Boeing also delivered three 787-9 Dreamliners to Korean Air, TAAG and United Airlines, in addition to a 787-10 to ANA and a 777F to Ethiopian Airlines.
Despite the good result, the assembly lines in Renton, Everett and North Charleston are still far from the pace desired by the company.
Undisclosed customer orders
Like Airbus, the US manufacturer also did not identify the customers for two orders placed last month.
One of them acquired two 777Fs, while the other acquired 34 737 MAX jets of undisclosed variants.
According to Boeing, there are 6,236 aircraft in its backlog of orders pending delivery. But 5,554 planes are on net orders after accounting adjustments.
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