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American airframer Boeing has opened the second quarter of the year with by logging orders for four 737 MAXs for unidentified customers.
However the company also removed 210 aircraft from its order book following the collapse of Jet Airways. The large cancellation will push Boeing’s net orders for the years into the negative like European rival Airbus.
Deliveries
As we indicated last month, Boeing’s deliveries in April have taken a further hit with a total of only 23 aircraft having been delivered.
Family-wise Deliveries
Boeing 737 family
With the grounding of the 737 MAX, Boeing suspended deliveries of the type from 14 March. This has led to a major hit to the companies delivery numbers with only nine 737’s being delivered this month. Compared to the 47 A320 neo family aircraft delivered this month, it’s easy to see how badly the MAX issues are hurting the aerospace giant.
The company has been working on a fix to the 737 MAX MCAS system and recently announced that going forward it would enable the disagree safety alert on all MAX aircraft.
| Customer Name | Model | Engine | Total |
| Bank of Communications Leasing | 737-800 | CF | 1 |
| China Eastern Airlines | 737-800 | CF | 1 |
| Sberbank Leasing | 737-800 | CF | 1 |
| Australia P-8 | 737-800A | CF | 2 |
| Delta Air Lines | 737-900ER | CF | 4 |
Boeing is still building 737 at a rate of 42 aircraft a month, which indicates that the company is confident that the fix will not be very extensive to retrofit to existing aircraft (the fix will most likely be in the form of a software update). Boeing will also have a large stockpile of aircraft ready for delivery once the fix is in place.
Boeing 747 family
A single 747-8f was delivered in April to UPS.
Boeing 777 family
Boeing delivered one 777-300ER to China Southern Airlines.
Boeing 787 family
A total of 12 787’s were delivered with one 787-8, nine 787-9’s and two of the largest 787-10s.
| Customer Name | Model | Engine | Total |
| Singapore Airlines | 787-10 | RR | 1 |
| United Airlines | 787-10 | GE | 1 |
| Uzbekistan Airways | 787-8 | GE | 1 |
| AerCap | 787-9 | RR | 1 |
| Air Canada | 787-9 | GE | 1 |
| Air France-KLM Group | 787-9 | GE | 1 |
| Air Lease Corporation | 787-9 | GE | 2 |
| BOC Aviation Limited | 787-9 | RR | 1 |
| CIT Aerospace LLC | 787-9 | RR | 1 |
| International Lease Finance Co | 787-9 | RR | 1 |
| Scoot Tigerair PTE LTD | 787-9 | RR | 1 |
Total Boeing deliveries – April 2019
The above charts reflect figures reported by the manufacturer in their orders and deliveries reports, it does not reflect orders that have been announced but not finalized.
