Boeing delivered 723 commercial airplanes in 2014

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Boeing delivered 723 commercial airplanes in 2014
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KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 14 (Bernama) -- Boeing set a global industry record for the most commercial airplanes delivered in a single year at 723 in 2014, maintaining its position as the world's largest airplane manufacturer for the third consecutive year.

Last year, Boeing booked 1,432 net orders, valued at US$232.7 billion at list prices.

The company also grew its backlog of unfilled commercial orders to a historic high of 5,789 airplanes.

Boeing Commercial Airplanes President and Chief Executive Officer Ray Conner said what the Boeing team achieved in 2014 was truly unprecedented, especially in the face of fierce competition.

"Boeing's achievements are based on the dedication of our talented employees, the trust that our customers place in our products and the partnership with our suppliers," he said in a statement today.

Boeing's widebody family of airplanes -- the 747-8, 767, 777 and 787 Dreamliner -- accounted for more than 60 per cent of all twin-aisle deliveries last year, further strengthening the company's position as the industry leader in widebody airplanes.

The Next-Generation 737 programme delivered more of the single-aisle airplanes than ever before with 485 deliveries in 2014. (BERNAMA)


-- TNA 2015-01-14

[NeverSure]

It's feast or famine for Boeing. It must be hard to plan into the future.

I remember a terrible recession in about 1970 when Boeing was closing plants and laying off people. Their main plant was in Everett, Washington which is just N. of Seattle, but a lot of support businesses were in Seattle.

Someone literally and actually put up a billboard on the freeway (I-5) going into Seattle that said "Will the last person leaving Seattle turn off the lights?"

[Lannig]

Airbus claims 629 deliveries, significantly behind Boeing indeed^(*), but 1,456 orders, which is a tiny bit ahead of them.

Source: http://www.airbus.com/company/market/orders-deliveries/

I predict a better 2015 year for Airbus, with A350 deliveries ramping up and the first A320neo deliveries.

(*) I haven't found money figures, but although the A380 deliveries are small quantity, each one accounts for quite a few 737/A320...

[Jdiddy]

(*) I haven't found money figures, but although the A380 deliveries are small quantity, each one accounts for quite a few 737/A320...

Ive heard a380 orders are stalling, the plane is not versatile enough and can only land at certain airports, there was an incident last year where an a380 landed with only 3 tons of fuel left, good for 10 minutes of flight time, as they encountered and had to wait out bad weather at the destination airport and at the alternative airport, all other airport runways in the area were not suitable

Future is efficient versatile widebodies for long haul, a330neo, a350, 777, 787

[Basil B]

AFAIK...

In 2014 Boeing had orders for 2 747-800, Airbus had an order for 20 A380 confirmed, (Airbus also cancelled an order from Skymark for 6 A380's).

There have been a total of 318 A380's ordered of which 152 have been delivered, so Airbus have another 162 still on their books, at 30 per year that is over 5 years production.

The other fact is of the 119 747-800 ordered 51 are for the passenger variant and 68 for the freight only variant, There were originally also 27 orders for the freighter version, the A380F, but when this programme was "frozen" following production delays, 20 A380F orders were cancelled and the remaining 7 were converted to A380-800s.

Boeing also have a further 5 747-400's on their order books but none have been built since 2009.

As for many airports unable to accommodate the A380, most airports that can accept the 747 have already altered some of there taxiways due to the A380 having a slightly larger wing span, in the event of an emergency a A380 can land anywhere a 747 can, just means they may have to back track the runway instead of using the taxiways.

[humqdpf]

(*) I haven't found money figures, but although the A380 deliveries are small quantity, each one accounts for quite a few 737/A320...

Ive heard a380 orders are stalling, the plane is not versatile enough and can only land at certain airports, there was an incident last year where an a380 landed with only 3 tons of fuel left, good for 10 minutes of flight time, as they encountered and had to wait out bad weather at the destination airport and at the alternative airport, all other airport runways in the area were not suitable

Future is efficient versatile widebodies for long haul, a330neo, a350, 777, 787

The problem with the A380 is not that it cannot land but that it cannot take off unless it has a longer runway - minimum length of runway to land at Maximum Landing Weight is 5,000 feet - minimum runway length for takeoff at Maximum Takeoff Weight is 9,000 feet.

To take-off the 747-800 at MTOW (Maximum Takeoff Weight), needs a runway that is 9,901 ft long; at MLW (Maximum Landing Weight), it needs a runway that is 7,545 ft.

There are many examples of large planes routinely taking off with lower weights than MTW on much shorter runways. And the 747-200 or 400 will probably need less runway anyway. But comparing the 747-800 and the A380, the A380 looks better.

These stats are from planes.findthebest.com