Boeing’s December 2024 and year-end orders & deliveries
January 15, 2025
In the month of December, Boeing received orders for 142 new aircraft, as well as 135 cancellations (taking the net total to just seven!) but was able to deliver 30 new aircraft – even as it recovered from the devastating strike.
The company received orders for 103 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft (100 for Pegasus, three for undisclosed customers. Eight 767-300Fs were ordered by an undisclosed customer or customers. A single Boeing 777-300ER was ordered by Altavair LP, and flydubai ordered 30 Boeing 787-9s.
All of the month’s calculations came from Jet Airways, consisting of 125 737 MAX aircraft and ten 787-9s.
Deliveries included 17 examples of the 737 MAX, a single 767-300F to Fedex, a single long stored 777-300ER (to Altavair LP, see above), six 787-9s, two 787-10s and single examples of the P-8A and KC-46.
The 17 737 MAX aircraft went to: Air China (1), Air India Express (1), Air Lease Corporation (1), Allegiant Air (1), American Airlines (2), Copa Airlines (1), Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (1), GOL Linhas Aereas (3), Shenzhen Airlines (1), Southwest Airlines (2), TUI (1), and United Airlines (2).
The eight 787s delivered consisted of single 787-9s for AerCap, China Eastern Airlines, Qatar Airways, and Royal Air Maroc, as well as two for United Airlines. Single 787-10s were delivered to Air Lease Corporation and KLM.
A single P-8A was delivered to the Royal Australian Air Force, and one KC-46A went to the US Air Force.
The year
Boeing received 569 orders in 2024, and had 192 cancellations, leaving a net of 377 orders ‘in the book’. Those 2024 orders included two 737-700s, 415 737 MAX aircraft, eight 767-300Fs, one 777-300ER, 35 777Fs, 30 777Xs, 57 787-9s, and six 787-10s, as well as fifteen KC-46As.
Boeing delivered 348 aircraft in 2024. Those 2024 deliveries included 260 737 MAX aircraft, ten 767-300Fs, one 777-300ER, thirteen 777Fs, one 787-8, 29 787-9s, and 21 787-10s, as well as five P-8As and eight KC-46As.
2024 was not an easy year for Boeing, which found production and deliveries disrupted by strikes and mandated production pauses, while the ongoing travails of the 737 MAX helped to ensure that the A321neo ‘won’ the battle of the narrowbodies, while the A350 continued to eat Boeing’s lunch on the 787 front.
