Airbus reports 766 commercial aircraft deliveries in 2024

Airbus highlights for 2024. Source | Airbus

Via its annual delivery report, Airbus (Toulouse, France) says it delivered 766 commercial aircraft to 86 customers globally in 2024. The Commercial Aircraft business registered 878 gross new orders. As a result, the company’s 2024 year-end backlog stood at 8,658 aircraft.

“Last year’s [2024’s] confirmed sustained demand for new aircraft,” Christian Scherer, CEO Commercial Aircraft at Airbus, says. “We won key customer decisions with important customers and saw phenomenal momentum for our widebody orderbook, complementing our position in the single-aisle market. On deliveries, we kept our trajectory and celebrated several landmark firsts. These include the first A321XLR as well as first A330neo and A350 deliveries to several customers globally.”

Out of those 766 deliveries, 123 of then were performed in December alone. Complete order and delivery summary can be viewed here.

	2024	2023
A220 Family	75	68
A320 Family	602	571
A330 Family	32	32
A350 Family	57	64
Total	766	735

Airbus’ 2023 order and delivery highlights for comparison.

“Given the complex and fast-changing environment we continue to operate in, we consider 2024 a good year,” Scherer adds. “It has been a team effort to deliver this 2024 result. A big thanks to Team Airbus who do what they do, every day, for our customers. And a big thanks to our customers for continuing to put their trust in us and grow our partnerships across the world.”

Airbus’ 2024 full-year financial results will be disclosed on Feb. 20, 2025. For related content, read “Airbus half-year 2024 results highlight increased deliveries, revenue and challenges.”

Airbus vs Boeing

On Jan 14, Boeing revealed its own program deliveries across its commercial and defense operations for Q4 2024 and full year (FY) 2024.

Commercial deliveries were cited as 57 (Q4) and 348 (FY 2024) and defense, space and security programs were 36 (Q4) and 112 (FY 2024). Boeing breaks down these numbers further here.

According to a post by Flightglobal.com, Boeing’s “commercial aircraft order and delivery figures tumbled” in comparison to Airbus, affected by the aerospace company’s continued operational setbacks.

Per the report: “Boeing’s total 2024 orders came to only 569 jets — of which 417 were 737s. That is down from 1,456 orders last year and is Boeing’s lightest tally since 2020 ... Boeing’s 2024 order count was also further whittled away by 192 cancellations, leaving it with net new orders for only 377 aircraft.

Data show that Boeing delivered just 348 aircraft last year, down from 528 in 2023. By contrast, Airbus’s delivery pace ticked up last year. The European airframer handed over 766 jets, just shy of its 770 target. Airbus had delivered 735 aircraft in 2023.”