No such problems at Airbus, which cruised at a high level and shipped almost two planes a day last year

Beleaguered aerospace outfit Boeing has revealed how many commercial aircraft it shipped in 2024, and the news isn’t good.

The company on Tuesday revealed it sent 348 new aircraft down the runway last year, 265 of them 737s in addition to 18 767s, 14 777s, and 51 787s.

Buidling an aircraft almost every day sounds like quite the achievement, given the complexity of a modern airliner and the long supply chains required to make them.

But Boeing data reveals that it shipped 528 planes in 2023, so it went backwards in 2024.

Rival plane-maker Airbus has not experienced similar turbulence. In 2023 the company launched 766 planes, up from the 735 it reported in 2023.

Airbus does have one advantage in that it counts the A220 regional jet in its total, having acquired its originator – Canadian firm Bombardier – in 2020. But A220 production isn’t enormous, with 68 built ...