Boeing January 2025 orders & deliveries
February 12, 2025
Boeing has released its order and delivery figures for the first month of this year. In January 2025 (the first month of full production since last year’s strike), Boeing booked orders for 36 aircraft, had no cancellations, and was able to deliver 45 new airliners.
The new orders were all for undisclosed customers, and included 34 737MAX aircraft, and two Boeing 777Fs. 36 orders compares to just 27 (including 25 MAXs) in January 2024.
The delivery of 45 aircraft, made January 2025 Boeing’s best month since December 2023, and the best January since 2019. It also represented a higher total than was achieved by Airbus (who delivered just 25 airliners), though the European giant can console itself with a bigger order tally (51 net in January), and with the thought that its widebody sales seem to be recovering more strongly. Widebodies are a market segment in which Boeing has traditionally done better than Airbus.
Boeing looks over-dependant on the 737MAX family, with the 787 order book starting to look moribund, and with no firm orders for the much-delayed 777X. Indeed, Boeing shifted 38 777X orders from its backlog into ASC 606 (which it reserves for orders that might be cancelled due to aircraft development delays, the financial condition of buyers, or geopolitical issues). On the other hand, Boeing restored seven widebody 787 orders in January that had previously been removed from the official backlog on the basis of being ‘insufficiently firm’.
The 40 737MAX deliveries in January were to the following airlines (one each, except where indicated): 9 Air, AerCap (2), Air China (2), Air India Express, Air Lease Corporation (3), Akasa Air, Alaska Airlines, Allegiant Air, American Airlines, BOC Aviation (2), China Eastern Airlines, GOL Linhas Aereas, Jackson Square Aviation (3), Korean Air, Oman Air, Ryanair, Shandong Airlines, Shenzhen Airlines, Southwest Airlines (5), TUI (2), United Airlines (7), and Xiamen Airlines. Interestingly, seven of the 737MAX aircraft went to Chinese airlines, working off the backlog that accumulated during a multi-year delivery pause to Chinese carriers. The Seattle Times reported that at least 10 of the MAXs came out of long-term storage where they had been held awaiting the completion of a rework. Boeing hopes to reach a rate of 38 new-build MAXs per month — the current cap imposed by the Federal Aviation Administration — “later this year” and then to get FAA approval to go to an even higher rate (initially 42 aircraft per month) once it has proven that production is meeting the mandated quality standards.
Alongside this deluge of 737MAX deliveries, Boeing delivered a single Boeing 777F freighter to Ethiopian Airlines, three 787-9s (to Korean Air, TAAG Angola Airlines and United Airlines) and a single 787-10 to All Nippon Airways.
