Manufacturer Ends Year on the Upswing, Despite Challenges

Airbus capped off 2022 with a rousing increase in aircraft delivered over 2021, with 661 deliveries to make an 8% bump overall.

The manufacturer delivered aircraft to 84 customers and took 1,078 gross new orders, bringing its end-of-year backlog to 7,239 aircraft in all. Once again the A320 brought in the lion's share of the hunt, accounting for 516 deliveries over 483 in 2021. The next most popular, the A350, accounted for 60 aircraft delivered in 2022, up by 5 from 2021. Were it not for sanctions preventing aircraft tender to Russian customers, then an additional pair of A350s would have made their way out the door as well. From there, the A220, with 53 aircraft, and the A330 with 32 rounded out the rest of the delivery schedule throughout 2022. That surpassed 2021 deliveries by 3 A220s, and by 15 A330s. Overall, the company left 2022 with 1,078 new orders on the books, or 820 net orders overall.

"In 2022 we served 84 customers with 661 deliveries, an increase of 8 percent compared to 2021. That’s obviously less than we were targeting but given the complexity of the operating environment I want to thank the teams and our partners for the hard work and the ultimate result,” said Guillaume Faury, Airbus Chief Executive Officer. “The significant order intake covering all our aircraft families including freighters, reflects the strength and competitiveness of our product line. We continue our ramp-up trajectory to deliver on our backlog.”

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