Boeing posts best Q2 deliveries since 2018 as China resumes aircraft acceptance
July 8, 2025
Boeing delivered 150 commercial aircraft between April and June, marking its best second-quarter performance since 2018.
In June alone, Boeing handed off 60 aircraft, the company’s highest monthly total since its end-of-year surge in December 2023.
Orders were up too, with massive orders from Middle East airlines pushing Boeing to an order total of 427 aircraft in the quarter. This stands in stark contrast to the measly 25 aircraft ordered in Q2, 2024.
However, is slightly skewed by a huge number of 737 MAX attributed to undisclosed customers. In the past three months, 176 MAX and 37 787 Dreamliners have been ordered but not yet announced.
In total, Boeing delivered 280 commercial aircraft across the first six months of the year. It maintains a backlog of 6,590 aircraft, with more than 4,800 for the 737 MAX family.
Boeing deliveries to China are back on
Boeing has also restarted aircraft deliveries to China after a pause that began in April, when retaliatory tariffs between the US and China froze one of the planemaker’s most important international markets.
Chinese airlines stopped accepting aircraft, with some already-complete jets sent back to the States.
As a truce was reached in late May, June saw Boeing recommence deliveries of aircraft to China, handing over eight aircraft in the month.
Most of these were 737 MAX family jets. Two went to Xiamen Airlines, and one each to China Southern and Air China and Minsheng Financial Leasing.
Widebody deliveries also resumed. A deferred 787-9 Dreamliner was finally delivered to Juneyao Air, and Air China Cargo received a 777 freighter, alongside another delivered to a leasing company.
Boeing’s 737 MAX production ramp up is complete
After months of lower rate production, Boeing has been producing around 38 737 MAX per month during this quarter. It’s the first quarter since the FAA-imposed cap began that Boeing has consistently bumped up against it.
If the planemaker wants to produce more than 38 each month, it will need FAA approval. CNBC reported CEO Ortberg told a Bernstein investors conference that, without a cap, the company could produce 42 a month by midyear, and 47 a month around half a year later.
However, the FAA is maintaining its limitations on Boeing’s production. It June, Reuters reported there were no current plans to review the cap, and that it intends to continue inspecting every 737 and 787 Dreamliner the company produces.
Boeing’s production was capped after an Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 lost a door plug in midair in January 2024. The FAA has since required Boeing to improve quality control and demonstrate sustained safety improvements before any increase in output will be considered.
