Beating Boeing – Detailed Airbus orders & deliveries for December 2024 and year-end
January 15, 2025
On 9 January 2025, Airbus released its figures for both the month of December 2024 and for the complete year. We looked at the broad trends arising from those figures, now here is the granular detail!
In December 2024, Airbus booked orders for 99 aircraft. It also received fourteen cancellations, taking the net total to 85. Orders were thus lower than Boeing’s December total, but a much smaller number of cancellations meant that the net total was more than ten times higher.
Airbus delivered 123 aircraft in December, compared to Boeing’s 30.
The company received orders for seven A220-300s (five for Air Canada, two for an undisclosed customer or customers), while Royal Jet booked three ACJ320neos, and undisclosed customers ordered 55 A320neos and 30 A321neos. Widebody orders consisted of three A330-900s for Air Algerie and a single A350-900 for an Undisclosed customer.
The month’s calculations came from Air Algerie (who cancelled two A350-1000s) and Viva Air, who cancelled 13 A320neos.
Deliveries included two A220-100s, eight A220-300s, three A319s, 33 A320neos, 56 A321neos, seven A330s and 14 A350s.
Single A220-100s went to Bulgaria Air and ITA Airways, while A220-300s went to Air France (1), Animawings (2), Breeze Airways (1), Croatia Airlines (1), ITA Airways (1) and to JetBlue Airways (2)
Two A319neos were delivered to China Southern Airlines, while a private customer took a single ACJ319neo.
The 33 A320neos went to China Eastern Airlines (6), China Southern Airlines (1), easyJet (2), flyadeal (1), Flyarystan (1), Hainan Airlines (5), Jetstar Airways (1), Juneyao Air (1), LATAM Airlines (5), Royal Jordanian (1), Sichuan Airlines (2), SKY Airline (3), Spring Airlines (1), Transavia France (1), and Vietnam Airlines (2).
The best-selling A321neo went to Aegean Air (1), Aer Lingus (2), AirAsia (3), American Airlines (1), Asiana Airlines (1), Cathay Pacific (1), Cebu Pacific (1), China Eastern Airlines (2), China Southern Airlines (3), Delta Air Lines (1), Frontier Airlines (3), HK Express (1), IndiGo (9), JetBlue Airways (1), Jetsmart (2), Jetstar Airways (1), Jet2 (2), KLM (2), Korean Air (2), Pegasus Airlines (1), Saudia (2), Spirit Airlines (1), Transavia (1), Turkish Airlines (1), United Airlines (4), Vietjet Air (4), Volaris (1), and Wizz Air (2).
A single A330-200 went to the NATO Support & Procurement Agency, while A330-900s were delivered to Cebu Pacific (1), Condor (1), Corsair (1), Delta Air Lines (1), Kuwait Airways (1), and Virgin Atlantic (1).
A respectable total of ten A350-900s were delivered in December to Emirates (1),
1 A350-900 to Delta Air Lines (1), Finnair (1), Korean Air (2), Lufthansa (2), Sichuan Airlines (1), and STARLUX Airlines (2). A350-1000s went to Air Caraibes (1), Ethiopian Airlines (2) and Japan Airlines (1).
Seeing so many of its rival’s aircraft going to US carriers including American, Delta, Frontier, JetBlue, Spirit, and United must be a bitter pill for Boeing to swallow – these 15 deliveries were equivalent to half of Boeing’s delivery total in December.
The year
Airbus received 878 orders in 2024, and had 52 cancellations, leaving a net of 826 orders ‘in the book’. Those 2024 orders included two A220-100s, 15 A220-300s, one A319neo, 134 A320neos, 502 A321neos, four A330-200s, 78 A330-900s, five A350Fs, 85 A350-900s, and 52 A350-1000s.
That means that the A319/320/321neo is comfortably out-selling the 737MAX (by 637 to 415) while the A350 is outselling the 787 (by 142 to 63 – more than two to one).
Airbus delivered 766 aircraft in 2024 (more than double the Boeing figure). Those 2024 deliveries included 10 A220-100s, 65 A220-300s, nine A319neos, 232 A320neos, 361 A321neos, two A330-200s, 30 A330-900s, 44 A350-900s, and thirteen A350-1000s.
