• Airbus delivered 661 commercial aircraft to 84 customers in 2022 and booked 820 net orders.

  • Good results but which do not make it possible to achieve the objectives that the aircraft manufacturer had set for itself in terms of deliveries.

  • The aircraft manufacturer, however, supplants Boeing, its competitor which also unveiled its figures on Tuesday.

    The American group has on the counter for 2022, 480 aircraft and 808 net orders recorded over the year.

If the air sector has not yet returned to its level before the Covid-19 crisis, on the side of the aircraft manufacturers, it is in top form.

Airbus announced on Tuesday that it delivered 661 aircraft last year, 8% more than in 2021, and recorded 820 net orders.

If these results are positive, we are however far from the 720 deliveries initially expected, supply problems being one of the difficulties in achieving these objectives.

However, it is upon delivery that the airlines pay the invoices.

“We are clearly below our targets, but given the complexity of our operational environment, I would like to thank our teams and our partners for the efforts made and the results achieved.

The strong order intake for all of our aircraft families, including cargo aircraft, reflects the strength and competitiveness of our product line.

We are continuing to ramp up in order to honor our order book,” said Guillaume Faury, Executive Chairman of Airbus in a press release.

Deliveries also up at Boeing

However, the aircraft manufacturer's order book remains very well stocked, since at the end of December, it included no less than 7,239 orders.

On those of last year, the A320neo family remains largely in the majority.



Results that allow it to be well ahead of its American competitor.

Boeing also chose this Tuesday to draw its figures.

And in 2022, the manufacturer delivered 480 devices and received 808 net orders.

If its number of deliveries is up 40% compared to 2021, it does not allow it to catch up with Airbus.

The group had to deal with the consequences of the crisis around its 737 MAX, which was grounded for twenty months after two plane crashes, and the suspensions of delivery of its 787 Dreamliner on which manufacturing defects were detected.

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