Boeing heads into the Paris Air Present after a blockbuster Could that included reserving 303 new orders and rolling out 38 new 737 MAX jets, a manufacturing fee it has been working to succeed in for greater than a yr. The corporate additionally delivered 45 plane final month, it stated Tuesday.
It was the sixth-highest month-to-month order tally in Boeing’s historical past, in accordance with firm information. The orders included the most important widebody jet deal in Boeing’s historical past: Qatar Airways’ order for 130 787s and 30 777Xs, plus choices for one more 50 of the long-haul plane.
Solely 120 of the 787s have been booked in Could. The opposite 10 had been ordered by Qatar in March, however the buyer was unidentified in Boeing’s order backlog earlier than Tuesday.
The Qatar order was introduced amongst a string of high-profile US enterprise offers throughout President Donald Trump’s Center East tour. A day earlier, Saudi Arabian-owned AviLease ordered 20 737-8 MAX jets.
One other Gulf area provider, Etihad, stated it deliberate to order 28 widebody Boeing jets. It didn’t place a agency order, so the plane weren’t included in Could’s complete.
Canadian airline WestJet additionally ordered seven 737 MAX jets, and likewise canceled two orders for 737s.
In complete, three orders have been canceled through the month, making for 300 web new orders in Could. Its order backlog rose to five,943 orders as of Could 31.
Boeing delivered 45 plane within the month, its fifth consecutive month of 40 or extra deliveries. The overall was almost twice as many deliveries because the 24 plane the corporate handed over to prospects throughout the identical month one yr earlier.
Wall Avenue intently screens plane deliveries as a result of planemakers can acquire the vast majority of their cost after they hand over jets to prospects.
The corporate handed over 31 737 MAX jets, together with seven to United Airways and 4 to Alaska Airways, and 7 787s, together with three to Qatar Airways from earlier orders.
It additionally delivered 5 777 freighters, one 767 freighter and one 737 NG to be transformed right into a P-8 Poseidon for the U.S. Navy.
Not one of the deliveries have been to Chinese language airways, which stopped taking new Boeing plane in April as the 2 nations clashed over tariffs. China eliminated the ban after the Washington and Beijing agreed to quickly reduce tariffs. A brand new 737 MAX landed in China on Monday, in accordance with flight monitoring information, the primary to reach because the ban was eliminated.
To this point in 2025, Boeing has delivered 220 plane: 164 737 MAXes, three 737 NGs for conversion into P-8s, 28 787s, 16 777s and 9 767s.
European rival Airbus has delivered 243 plane up to now this yr, together with 51 deliveries in Could. Airbus didn’t announce any new orders final month, however it’s anticipated to announce a number of offers through the Paris Air Present, which begins Monday.
Boeing stated it rolled out 38 new 737 MAX plane in Could, hitting a manufacturing goal it has been engaged on for greater than a yr. The US Federal Aviation Administration capped output at 38 airplanes a month attributable to high quality issues uncovered by a mid-air panel blowout in a virtually new 737 in January 2024.
Month-to-month manufacturing of its best-selling 737 MAX has diverse up and down lately as the corporate grappled with inside and exterior manufacturing issues and constraints. A strike final yr at its vegetation in Washington and Oregon shut down manufacturing of the favored single-aisle airplane. Since manufacturing resumed in December, the corporate has taken a sluggish and deliberate strategy to growing the speed.
Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg has stated the corporate has to stabilize manufacturing at 38 monthly for a number of months earlier than asking the FAA to extend output. All six manufacturing high quality and security metrics created by the corporate and US regulators are inexperienced, in accordance with the corporate.
