Boeing Gets January Boost from 737 Max Deliveries
Shipment of 26 Boeing commercial jets in January included twenty-one 737 Maxes.

Boeing on Tuesday reported it delivered 26 commercial jets in January, surpassing Airbus’s total by five airplanes and clearing another twenty-one 737 Maxes from its inventory of grounded airplanes. The company delivered double the number of airplanes it shipped in January 2020, when the continued grounding of the Max limited output mainly to widebodies.


Boeing also won an order for four 747-8Fs from cargo delivery giant Atlas Air last month, although cancellations and accounting adjustments for airplanes it will not likely deliver drove net orders to negative 13.


Max deliveries included two of the narrowbodies to Alaska Airlines, five to American Airlines, two to Copa Airlines, and five to United Airlines. Leasing companies accounted for the remainder. Two 777-300ERs to Novus Aviation Capital, one 777F to China Airlines, and a single 767-300F to FedEx Express accounted for all widebody deliveries as the company continues to inspect and rework faulty body joins in some 80 Dreamliners. The problem has forced the company to delay the re-start of deliveries of 787s from the end of last year to “late in the first quarter.”