Boeing Has Good News

Boeing is entering 2026 with positivity after enjoying a successful end to 2025, after a year of rebuilding.

Based on preliminary data, yet to be confirmed by the planemaker and cited in Airinsight’s data, the planemaker delivered some 595 aircraft across 2025. This is a sizeable jump from one year prior and well above analysts’ previous expectations.

In 2024, Boeing delivered just 348 commercial aircraft, down from 528 in 2023. Therefore, 595 in 2025 represents one of the planemaker’s busiest years in recent memory.

One has to look back to 2018, when Boeing delivered 806 for the last time. There was a figure higher than 595. 2018 was naturally stable for 10 months of the year before the 737 MAX crisis commenced, something the planemaker is still recovering from.

After a door blowout incident at the top of 2024 aboard an Alaska Airlines 737 MAX, Boeing was fundamentally forced to change everything it knew about its business, after years of progress on turnaround efforts amounted to nothing.

Since this incident, Oeing has invested time, resources and money in rebuilding not just production practices but, more formally, the culture, believing that righting the wrongs of the culture will establish a new tone across the manufacturer from top to bottom, grounded in trust, safety, openness and communication.

Boeing Orders Improved As Well

It wasn’t just delivery perfromance for Boeing, which increased across 2025; orders were up as well. Another solid year for the manufacturer saw it beat Airbus, its fierce competitor in this part, for the first time in a while.

The order tally for Boeing shows that demand for its aircraft remains strong, and it also highlights the trust it has restored with its customers after a lengthy period of uncertainty about the products being shipped.

With persistent quality issues, some airlines found themselves hesitant to commit to the manufacturer, or additionally take delivery of their aircraft, which were due, for fear of quality slip-ups that would not impact just their operations and finances, but more so pose a risk to the safety of their passengers, whether customers or crew.

However, as more airlines visited Boeing factories, the planemaker was able to show the many improvements it has made in righting the many wrongs that have plagued it for so long and made a dent in its brand image.

Boeing recognises its mistakes, acknowledges them, and is remorseful. Still, it understands that it can never move forward; it must right its wrongs, take responsibility for what it did, and learn to ensure it can be better in the future.

With so many years of poor perfromance as well, Airbus powered ahead with its backlog, leaving single-aisle jet availability scarcer on its side, now an opportunity for recovery at Boeing to fill its backlog too with aircraft such as the 737 MAX.

An Exciting Couple Of Years Ahead

2026 represents yet another year in which Boeing will have the opportunity to make up ground on its competitor, Airbus. While the European planemaker will, for the first time in more than half a decade, have its rival breathing down its neck, it’ll be a welcome move.

Having two leading manufacturers, Airbus and Boeing, healthy and operating at their peak, is precisely what the industry needs: to see innovation, to see competition, and much more that’s been absent for many years.

While both planemakers will still have much they’ll want to achieve and equally fix, the exciting prospect of the years ahead, from new possible launches to production increases across key types that have long been delayed, to even certification, is what gives many hope that the corner has been turned for everyone.