Overview
- Airbus handed over 793 jets in 2025, meeting its revised target and lifting its order backlog to a record 8,754 after 1,000 gross orders (889 net).
- Boeing delivered 600 aircraft, its highest annual total since 2018, and recorded more net orders than Airbus after booking 1,175 gross and 1,075 net orders.
- Airbus said late-year A320 fuselage panel quality problems curtailed delivery growth, and A350 output was paced by a center fuselage section previously built by Spirit AeroSystems.
- To secure widebody and A220 ramp-ups, Airbus acquired Spirit’s Airbus work packages and expanded A320-family assembly capability toward planned higher rates.
- Executives flagged continued late engine arrivals—particularly from Pratt & Whitney—into 2026, and IATA warns aircraft and engine availability may lag demand until roughly 2031–2034.