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Airbus Hits 2025 Delivery Target, Sets Record Backlog as Boeing Tops Orders and Lifts Deliveries to 600

Persistent supply constraints—A320 fuselage inspections, tight engine deliveries, supplier fixes—now define the pace of both manufacturers’ recoveries.

Boeing employees assemble 787s inside their main assembly building on their campus in North Charleston, South Carolina, U.S., May 30, 2023. Gavin McIntyre/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
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The logo of Airbus is displayed at the Eurosatory international land and air defence and security trade fair in Villepinte, France, June 17, 2024. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier/File Photo
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Overview

  • Airbus delivered 793 jets in 2025, meeting its revised guidance after late‑year A320 fuselage panel thickness findings tempered fourth‑quarter handovers.
  • Orders took Airbus’s backlog to a record 8,754 aircraft, including 1,124 widebodies, with 1,000 gross and 889 net sales recorded for the year.
  • Boeing recorded 600 deliveries in 2025, its highest since 2018, and outpaced Airbus on net orders for the first time since 2018.
  • Regulatory action on the A320 family progressed as EASA’s proposed directive on fuselage panel inspections nears the Jan. 14 consultation deadline.
  • Airbus moved to secure the A350 ramp‑up by acquiring critical Spirit AeroSystems work packages after center‑fuselage issues constrained widebody output.