Widebody bonanza: Airbus sells over 100 twin-aisles in June, A330neo leads the way
July 9, 2025
Airbus delivered a total of 63 commercial aircraft to 35 customers in June 2025. This brings the total delivered in the first half of 2025 to 306. Meanwhile, Airbus’ gross orders for the first half of the year stood at 203 airplanes.
Airbus’ June 2025 deliveries
Airbus delivered 63 aircraft in June 2025, representing a modest drop from the 67 delivered in June 2024. This exceeded Forecast International’s expectations that Airbus would deliver just 57 aircraft in June 2025.
Airbus is planning to ramp up deliveries in 2025 over the previous year’s output. Deliveries of aircraft tend to be somewhat lumpy and not much should be read into the deliveries of a single month.
That said, Airbus’s deliveries for the first half of 2025 remain below the volume of 2024. By the end of June 2024, Airbus had delivered 323 new aircraft to 65 customers. Airbus ended 2024 with a total of 766 commercial aircraft deliveries.
Airbus is planning to deliver a total of 820 aircraft in 2025. Meanwhile, while Boeing hopes to push out 610 commercial aircraft during the year.
The Airbus A330neo leads a great month for widebody orders
At the Paris Air Show in June 2025 saw LOT Polish Airlines ordered 40 Airbus A220s, snubbing a rival offer from Embraer with its E2. Notably, these are the only A220s ordered so far in 2025.
A total of 30 A320neo family narrowbodies were ordered by the leasing company, Avilease. Another 27 A320neo family aircraft were ordered by All Nippon Airways on day 1 of the Paris Air Show, giving Airbus its third order of the day.
Unusually, Airbus sold more widebodies than it did narrowbodies, with a total of 107 units signed for. A particular star of the show was the A330-900, which received all but 10 of its 71 commitments this year during the month of June.
The IAG Group (which includes British Airways) ordered 21 A330-900s, while MAB Leasing and VietJet both ordered 20 A330-900s each.
But the flagship Airbus A350 wasn’t far behind, with 35 sold, all the largest A350-1000 varient. Saudi Arabia’s new start-up flag -carrier, Riyadh Air, ordered 25 A350-1000s, and Starlux Airlines ordered another 10 A350-1000s.
The forthcoming A350F cargo carrier added to its backlog too, with 10 ordered by Avilease. The widebody freighter currently has comittments for 66 units
In all, Airbus has reported receiving a total of 494 gross orders in the first half of 2025. These are adjusted to a net of 402 orders after cancellations.
Airbus is outdelivering Boeing
Boeing has not had a ‘normal’ year since 2018, before it was affected by the Boeing 737 MAX crashes and the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Boeing had a particularly bad 2024, only delivering 348 commercial aircraft. This means in the first six months of 2025, Airbus has almost delivered as many aircraft as Boeing did in the whole of last year.
Boeing’s deliveries in 2025 are, so far, much stronger. In June 2025, it delivered 60 commercial aircraft, the best outputmost it has since December 2023. Notably, eight aircraft were handed over to Chinese airlines in a much-needed delivery restart as tariff tensions ease.
Although Airbus is still on the front foot, with more orders and deliveries than its rival, it only out-delivered Boeing by three aircraft in June. Supply chain constraints continue to impact Airbus’ production rate, but it doesn’t face the FAA-imposed cap to which its competitor must adhere.
Boeing has so far delivered 280 aircraft in the first half of the year. It has also received 668 new gross orders and a total of 625 year-to-date orders after cancellations and conversions.
Airbus currently commands around 60% of the commercial aviation market, while Boeing has around a 36% share, with most of the balance going to Brazil’s Embraer.
Boeing has a total backlog of 6,590 commercial aircraft, of which 4,873 are Boeing 737 MAX aircraft. Meanwhile, Airbus’ total backlog currently stands at around 8,600 commercial aircraft.
