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AIRCRAFT manufacturer Airbus delivered 766 commercial aircraft to 86 customers worldwide in 2024. Airbus’ commercial aircraft business recorded 878 gross orders. The backlog at the end of 2024 will reach 8,658 aircraft.
According to Christian Scherer, CEO of Airbus Commercial Aircraft, said 2024 confirms the continued demand for new aircraft.
“We won major customer decisions with our most important customers and saw phenomenal momentum for our wide-body order book, complementing our leading position in the single-aisle market,” Scherer said, as quoted from an Airbus press release on Friday (10/1/2025).
Scherer explained that Airbus also celebrated several achievements in 2024, including the first delivery of the Airbus A321XLR aircraft and the delivery of the first Airbus A330 neo and A350 aircraft to several customers worldwide.
“Given the complex and rapidly changing environment in which we continue to operate, we view 2024 as a good year. “It was a huge team effort to deliver these results in 2024,” Scherer said.
In 2024, Airbus delivered 22 A220 aircraft, compared to 68 in 2023. Airbus also delivered 602 A320 aircraft, compared to 571 in 2023.
Airbus delivered 32 A330 aircraft in 2024, the same number as in the previous year. Finally, Airbus delivered 57 A350 aircraft in 2024, down from 64 units in 2023. Airbus’ 2024 financial report will be released on February 20, 2025.
Meanwhile, Airbus competitor Boeing delivered 341 aircraft in 2024, according to AirInsight data. That figure is down 34 percent from 2023, when Boeing delivered 513 aircraft.
Boeing’s deliveries this year mark the company’s lowest since the pandemic in 2020 and 2021. The data shows that Boeing will produce a total of 230 narrow-body and wide-body commercial airplanes in 2024, 149 fewer than in 2023. [sources/photo special]
