Overview

• Airbus secured a record 2,094 net plane orders in 2023, smashing its previous record from 2013 of 1,503 planes.
• Despite supply chain issues, Airbus delivered 735 jets in 2023, surpassing its target of 720 deliveries.
• Major contracts were secured with India's low-cost IndiGo, which ordered 500 A320s, the biggest civil aviation order in history, as well as Air India (250 planes) and Turkish Airlines (230 planes).
• Airbus's performance outperformed its US rival Boeing, which secured 1,314 net orders and delivered 528 aircraft in 2023.
• Airbus has begun development of a successor to the popular A320 family for the second half of the 2030s, and is aiming to launch a hydrogen-powered plane, which would emit no CO2, toward 2035.