ATR: 2024 orders rise 40% year-on-year
February 24, 2025
ATR has reported a strong sales growth in 2024, with orders up 40% versus 2023 as the regional aircraft manufacturer celebrates 16 new customers and “significant engagement” from Asian customers.
56 aircraft ordered within the year comprise “a mix of renewed commitments from existing operators and new customers, both airlines and lessors, exemplifying strong market demand for ATR aircraft,” explained the manufacturer. These included 51 ATR 72 and five ATR 42 units, bringing ATR’s total backlog to over 150.
Over the course of the year, 35 deliveries (along with one unit ready to deliver) were in line with previously anticipated guidance, despite facing difficulties with supply chain constraints. Looking ahead, ATR “expects 2025 to be another year of stabilisation,” despite predicting tensions in the supply chain to remain “at least during the first half of the year”.
Additionally, almost 100 transactions on the pre-owned market reasserts the “robust demand for ATR’s cost-effective and low-emission turboprops,” continued the OEM. In total, 16 new customers (for both new and pre-owned aircraft) placed orders, a figure up 45% year-on-year. With ATR having offered “value -added services and streamlining operations,” this “continues to give ATR solid foundations for the future, and shows that the regional market is eager to buy highly-efficient aircraft with the right economics, the right capacity, and the right performance,” suggested ATR CEO Nathalie Tarnaud Laude.
With 2024 also marking the start of the ATR-600 series renewal, Europe and Asia-Pacific both saw their first-600 replacements delivered, while ATR also celebrated the first ATR 72-600 delivered to Canada.
Supporting aircraft sales, customer support and services also rose by 15% to $480 million, building on an already “record level” for 2023. “Our results show how relevant our aircraft are to our operators, and to people across the world who want to connect, sustainably,” concluded Tarnaud Laude.
