Airbus achieved a rise in aircraft orders for 2019 but failed to keep pace with deliveries for the second year in a row after it canceled its A380 superjumbo program and cleaned its books of some inactive deals left behind by a booming order in the sector.
The European company achieved total orders of 1131, up 36%, the strongest in six years. This comes after an order for 40 of its wide-body A330-New planes by an unidentified customer in the final days of 2019.
Net orders after cancellations increased 3% to 768 aircraft.
Airbus confirmed that it had delivered a record 863 aircraft in 2019, up 7.98%, after Reuters reported in an exclusive annual gross report on January 1.
Those numbers put Airbus on a path to outpace Boeing in both orders and deliveries for the first time since 2011, as the US rival Airbus is struggling with a 737 MAX flight cessation crisis.
Boeing is due to announce its numbers next Tuesday.
Airbus data resulted in a net female doctors net delivery rate to 0.89, the lowest level since the 2009 financial crisis.
Source: Reuters
