BOEING

Company delivered 38 planes in January, while Airbus delivered 20

Boeing delivered 38 planes in January, including 35 units from the 737 MAX family and three 787 Dreamliner. The mark is slightly higher than that recorded in the same month last year, when Boeing delivered 32 planes.

Even so, Boeing surpassed Airbus, which in January delivered only twenty aircraft, almost a third less than registered in 2022. Demand for new commercial aircraft remains unstable, with airlines placing large orders, with future deliveries, but many assessing the moment of receipt amid uncertainties regarding the global economy.

Boeing also booked gross orders for 55 aircraft last month, including 33 737 MAX family planes, 15 KC-46 tankers for the US Air Force; and seven 787 Dreamliner. However, net orders were just sixteen aircraft, given the 39 cancellations registered in January.

Boeing, like most aeronautical manufacturers in the world, is working to solve problems in the production chain, which has suffered from delays for almost three years, since the beginning of the health crisis and potentially aggravated by the War in Ukraine.

Boeing executives say that the pace of deliveries is likely to remain variable from month to month, with even lower expectations for February.

In January, Boeing still registered the delivery of the last 747-8F, thus definitively ending the production of the eternal Jumbo. The four-engine aircraft, which already represented almost half of Boeing's sales and deliveries for several years, began to suffer from competition from large twin-engine aircraft, especially the 777-300ER, including now as a freighter, and the A350-1000, which offer capacity and ranges close to , but with costs up to 30% lower.

Boeing is currently working to certify the 737 MAX 7 and MAX 10 within the old FAA standards, the civil aviation authority of the United States, avoiding a change in the process that would make the continuity of the family concept unfeasible. If required to install new cabin alert systems on the 737 MAX 7 and MAX 10, Boeing would in practice have two products, with both planes requiring different licenses from MAX 8 and MAX 9 pilots.

Still in commercial aviation, the certification of the 777-9 continues with delays, with the current schedule predicting deliveries to the first customers to take place in 2025, at least five years after the original plan. The 777-8, on the other hand, is under development and its deliveries should take place at least two years after its bigger brother.