Boeing on track for most plane deliveries in a year since 2018

Boeing’s It delivered 55 planes to customers last month, putting it on pace for its best year since 2018 as its production stabilized and executives increased production rates of its 737 Max cash cow planes.

Boeing said Tuesday that 40 of the deliveries were 737 Maxes, with customers including European budget carrier Ryanair taking 10 of them. Southwest Airlines, United AirlinesChina Southern and leasing company Air Trap.

Boeing delivered 440 aircraft in the first nine months of 2025; Two fatal 737 Max crashes, five months apart, have devastated the company, compared with 568 planes during the same period in 2018.

Rival Airbus has reported 507 deliveries to customers so far this year.

Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg said last month that the manufacturer expects the 737 Max production rate to reach 42 per month by the end of the year; That’s a step higher than the 38-a-month limit the Federal Aviation Administration set after the near-catastrophic explosion of a door jamb on a flight in January 2024.

“I think we’re pretty aligned,” Ortberg said of the approval process with the FAA at a Morgan Stanley investor conference in September. “We need to stabilize that last metric. And we definitely plan to move to 42 production per month by the end of the year.”

Boeing on Tuesday also reported net orders for 48 planes in September, or 96 gross sales before adjustments; these included 64,787 Dreamliners, including 50 for Turkish Airlines and 30,737 for Norwegian Airlines.