A Boeing 737 MAX 8 sits outside the hangar during a media tour of the Boeing 737 MAX at the Boeing factory in Renton, Washington.
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Boeing Co delivered 480 planes and won 774 new orders after allowing cancellations in 2022 following strong performance in December, the US plane maker said on Tuesday.
Last month, Boeing delivered 69 planes, including 53 737 MAXs and 15 widebody planes, and placed 203 new orders after cancellations.
Airbus delivered 563 aircraft at the end of November, meaning the European group remains the world’s largest aircraft manufacturer for its fourth year of operation.
Boeing for the full year of 2021 delivered 340 planes and reported 479 new orders.
Boeing said its official backlog as of December 31 had grown to 4,578 aircraft, including 3,628 737 MAX planes. About 80% of its deliveries in 2022 are for 737s.
Boeing’s 2022 deliveries include 31 787 Dreamliners, of which 10 were delivered in December.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in August approved delivery of the first 787 since 2021. Boeing halted deliveries in May 2021 after the FAA raised concerns about the proposed test method.
Last month, President Joe Biden signed legislation lifting a December 27 deadline that imposes a new safety standard on state-of-the-art cockpit warnings for the MAX 7 and MAX 10 – two new versions of the 737 family. The US aircraft manufacturer’s best-selling MAX.
Without action by Congress, the two new MAX variants will need a state-of-the-art FAA-certified cockpit warning system, which Boeing has warned could jeopardize the future of the plane. Boeing has more than 1,000 orders for two MAX variants.
The plane-maker delivered 48 planes in November and had just 21 new orders, including 18 737 MAXs and three 767s. In November, Boeing said a reduction in 737 MAX deliveries was the end as a result of their quality management system discovering “one fuselage defect, two defects and delivery delays.”
Boeing commercial jet CEO Stan Deal told reporters last month that the issue has been resolved. “Those are the things that slow you down. That’s why we always say quality comes first, focus on that,” Deal said.
Last month, United Airlines said it had ordered 100 787s and 100 737 MAXs. Boeing said on Tuesday that 10 MAX orders and 10 787s were previously listed as unspecified orders.
