Boeing vs Airbus: Market Share, Deliveries and Revenue

Boeing vs Airbus: Market Share, Deliveries and Revenue

Boeing and Airbus build almost all of the world's large passenger jets, so "market share" in this industry usually means one company's share of what the two of them deliver or sell. Both report on the calendar year, which makes 2025 the latest full year for each. Boeing reports in US dollars and Airbus in euros; this article does not convert or net the two currencies against each other.

Market Share by Deliveries

Deliveries are the cleanest measure, because each company counts finished aircraft handed to customers. In 2025 Airbus delivered 793 commercial aircraft and Boeing delivered 600, a combined 1,393.

2025 commercial deliveries	Airbus	Boeing
Total aircraft delivered	793	600
Share of the two companies' combined deliveries	56.9%	43.1%
Single-aisle jets	607 A320 family	447 737
Smaller single-aisle (no Boeing equivalent)	93 A220	None
Wide-body jets	93 (36 A330, 57 A350)	153 (88 787, 35 777, 30 767)

Sources: Airbus full-year 2025 results and Boeing fourth-quarter 2025 deliveries. Shares are calculated here from the two companies' own counts. They exclude other manufacturers such as Embraer and COMAC, so they describe the Boeing-Airbus split, not the whole aircraft market.

The headline split hides two different contests. In single-aisle jets, the largest part of the market, the A320 family outsold the 737 by 607 to 447, or 57.6% to 42.4%. Airbus also delivered 93 A220s, a smaller jet of roughly 100 to 150 seats that Boeing does not match; leave those out and the split narrows to 700 against 600 (53.8% to 46.2%). In wide-body jets the order is reversed: Boeing delivered 153 787s, 777s and 767s against 93 Airbus A330s and A350s, a 62.2% share of the pair's wide-body deliveries.

Orders and Backlog

Orders tell a different story from deliveries. Boeing reported 1,173 net commercial orders in 2025, while Airbus reported 889 net orders (1,000 gross before cancellations). By that measure Boeing took 56.9% of the two companies' combined net orders, almost exactly the mirror image of the delivery split.

One year of orders does not overturn the backlog, though. Airbus ended 2025 with a record commercial backlog of 8,754 aircraft. Boeing reported a Commercial Airplanes backlog of more than 6,100 airplanes, valued at a record $567 billion. Airbus's backlog is therefore roughly 40% larger by aircraft count. At 2025 delivery rates, each backlog represents about a decade of production: around 11 years for Airbus and around 10 for Boeing. Both companies are trying to raise output, so the real waiting time should be shorter.

Revenue and Profit

On total revenue the ranking flips again, because Boeing is a much larger defense and services business than Airbus.

2025 results	Boeing (BA)	Airbus (AIR)
Group revenue	$89.5B (up 34% from $66.5B)	€73.4B (up 6% from €69.2B)
Commercial aircraft revenue	$41.5B (Commercial Airplanes)	€52.6B (Airbus commercial segment)
Commercial aircraft profitability	Operating margin of -17.1%	EBIT Adjusted of €5.47B (about 10.4% of segment revenue)
Operating result, group	$4.3B earnings from operations	€6.1B EBIT (€7.1B EBIT Adjusted)
Net result	$2.2B net earnings, including a $9.6B gain on selling Digital Aviation Solutions	€5.2B net income

Sources: Boeing fourth-quarter and full-year 2025 results, Boeing 2025 Form 10-K (SEC EDGAR) and Airbus full-year 2025 results. Airbus's segment figures are before eliminations between segments, so they do not add exactly to group revenue. Each company's profile shows its full multi-year record: Boeing financials, Airbus financials.

Two points stand out. First, Boeing's larger group revenue comes from outside commercial jets: Commercial Airplanes produced $41.5B, about 46% of the total, with the rest from Defense, Space & Security and Global Services. Airbus's commercial aircraft business is the bigger of the two even before any currency conversion, since €52.6B is more than $41.5B at any 2025 exchange rate. Second, Airbus's jet business made money while Boeing's did not. Boeing returned to a net profit in 2025 only because of the one-time gain from selling Jeppesen, ForeFlight and other digital aviation assets.

Why Airbus Leads on Deliveries

The gap is recent. Boeing delivered 806 commercial airplanes in 2018, its best year. The 737 MAX was grounded worldwide in March 2019 after two fatal crashes, and Boeing's deliveries fell to 380 in 2019 and 157 in 2020. A recovery was interrupted in 2024, when a door plug blew out of a 737 MAX 9 in January, the FAA capped 737 production at 38 a month, and a 53-day machinists' strike stopped the factories in the autumn. Boeing delivered 348 airplanes that year. The 600 delivered in 2025 was its highest total since 2018, but still below Airbus. The full sequence is on the Boeing history page.

Airbus has its own limits. It is targeting around 870 commercial deliveries in 2026 and plans to reach 70 to 75 A320-family aircraft a month by the end of 2027, according to its full-year results. Whether both companies hit their production plans matters more to next year's market share than any single order.

Who Is Bigger: Boeing or Airbus?

It depends on the measure, and each answer is correct for its own question:

• Jets delivered: Airbus, 793 to 600 in 2025 (56.9% of the pair).
• Single-aisle jets: Airbus, 607 A320s to 447 737s.
• Wide-body jets: Boeing, 153 to 93.
• Net orders in 2025: Boeing, 1,173 to 889.
• Backlog: Airbus, 8,754 aircraft against Boeing's 6,100-plus.
• Group revenue: Boeing, $89.5B against €73.4B, because of its defense and services businesses.
• Commercial jet profit: Airbus; Boeing Commercial Airplanes ran a -17.1% operating margin.

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