A year-end report reveals that Airbus significantly outpaced Boeing in both jet orders and deliveries in 2024, particularly in the narrowbody market. Boeing faced production challenges due to safety concerns and a Machinists union strike, while Airbus benefitted from a robust A320neo family production. Boeing's struggles are underscored by the dominance of Airbus' larger A321neo, for which Boeing lacks a direct competitor.
By Dominic Gates, The Seattle TimesBoeing was forced to reassess its safety and quality management after a 737 MAX fuselage blew a hole on an Alaska Airlines flight a year ago. MAX production in Renton, Washington, seen here in June, slowed dramatically for all of 2024, ceding more of the narrowbody market to Airbus.
Airbus dominance in that market segment skewed the overall figures dramatically. Boeing delivered a total of 348 commercial jets in 2024, while Airbus delivered 766. The entire aerospace industry’s supply chain remains severely weakened by the loss of experienced workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. So Airbus couldn’t ramp up production as fast as planned due to parts shortages, limiting its ability to take further advantage of Boeing’s weakness.
Airbus now operates eight A320 jet family assembly lines — two in Toulouse, France; four in Hamburg, Germany; one in Tianjin, China; and one in Mobile, Alabama — all now equipped to build the larger A321 model. Despite tremendous demand for new airplanes, airlines hesitated to place new orders for Boeing jets and cancelled some prior orders due in part to the well-publicized troubles and in part to the delay in getting three new airplane models — the Max 7, Max 10 and 777X jets — certified for service by the Federal Aviation Administration.Fully 135 of the Boeing cancellations were from one airline, Jet Airways of India, which was liquidated last year.
Airbus sales chief Benoit de Saint-Exupéry savored that outcome, saying the European plane-maker overtook Boeing in both widebody deliveries and orders mostly due to the growing success of the large A350 jet.Underlining the threat especially from the very large A350-1000 model, Boeing has no new widebody jet ready to compete with it.Boeing delivered its final old-model 777 passenger plane in December, a plane that had been in storage since the COVID pandemic hit in 2020.
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