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In its first full month of production since strike, Boeing ( BA )

delivers 40 737 MAX jets

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Gross orders drop for Boeing ( BA ) to 36, down from 142 in

December

By Dan Catchpole

Feb 11 - Boeing ( BA ) said on Tuesday that it had delivered 45

airplanes in January, up from 30 deliveries the previous month

and the most deliveries in a month for the U.S. planemaker since

2023.

The deliveries included 40 737 MAX aircraft, up from 25

delivered in the same month a year ago, when a mid-air blowout

on a nearly new Alaska Air ( ALK ) 737 MAX 9 grounded the model and

brought Boeing ( BA ) under scrutiny from federal regulators.

It was Boeing's ( BA ) busiest January for deliveries since 2019.

It was also the company's first full month of production since a

seven-week strike last fall halted most of its commercial

airplane production.

Aircraft deliveries are closely watched by Wall Street

because planemakers collect the majority of their payment when

they hand over jets to customers.

It delivered seven 737 MAX jets to United Airlines, five to

Southwest Airlines ( LUV ) and seven to unidentified Chinese airlines,

according to the company.

According to Cirium Fleet Analyzer and flight records on

FlightRadar24, Boeing ( BA ) delivered 737 MAX aircraft to Shenzhen

Airlines, 9 Air, Shandong Airlines, China Eastern Airlines,

Xiamen Airlines, and two to Air China.

Boeing ( BA ) also delivered four 787s, including the first 787 to

TAAG Angola, and one 777 freighter to Ethiopian Airlines.

Boeing ( BA ) booked 34 orders for 737 MAX to unidentified

customers and two 777 freighter orders, also to unidentified

customers, for a total of 36 new orders, up from 27 orders

during the same month a year ago. It did not record any

cancellations.

After adjusting for accounting standards, Boeing ( BA ) added 42

orders to its contracted backlog: 33 737 MAX jets, two 777

freighters and seven 787s.

That is down from 142 gross orders in December, including 30

787 orders for flydubai and 100 737 MAX orders from Turkey's

Pegasus Airlines, a longtime Airbus customer.

As Boeing ( BA ) works to stabilize commercial jetliner production

in the United States, a Boeing ( BA ) executive told Reuters on Monday

that there is not enough demand in India to justify opening a

final assembly line in the country.