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Boeing vs Airbus: race for best-selling aircraft intensifies

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Boeing vs Airbus: race for best-selling aircraft intensifies
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For decades, the Boeing 737 family held the title of the world's best-selling commercial passenger jet. However, this is changing as Airbus has surpassed Boeing in several areas, including becoming the largest airplane maker with about 60% of the market share. The Airbus A320 family is on track to become the most delivered commercial passenger jet in history.

As of June 2025, Boeing has delivered a total of 12,134 aircraft from its 737 family, while Airbus has delivered 12,097 from its A320 family. This leaves only a gap of 37 units between them. Despite Boeing's head start with the first flight in 1967 and service entry in 1968, compared to Airbus' A320 which first flew in 1987 and entered service in 1988, Airbus is catching up quickly.

The Boeing 737's deliveries have been impacted since the crashes involving the MAX models in 2018 and 2019. These incidents were linked to design challenges due to its older design meant for smaller engines. In contrast, the A320 was designed later with larger engines in mind.

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In recent years, deliveries for both companies have fluctuated due to various factors including supply chain issues and strikes affecting Boeing. In particular, during a challenging year like 2024, Boeing delivered only 265 units compared to Airbus' delivery of 602 units.

Looking ahead into mid-2025 data shows that Airbus has a significant backlog advantage over Boeing with orders for their A320neo outnumbering those for Boeing's MAX series by thousands. However, despite these differences in narrowbody aircraft deliveries and orders, when it comes to widebody aircraft sales figures as of mid-2025 show that Boeing leads with popular models like the B777 and B787 Dreamliner surpassing those from Airbus.

Overall combining both deliveries and orders indicates that while Airbus may lead currently among narrowbodies such as its A320 series being favored globally - especially considering future backlogs - there remains strong competition between these two aviation giants across different segments within commercial aviation markets today.

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