The Aircraft Order Book
How many airliners Airbus, Boeing, Embraer and ATR have sold in each calendar year, kept up to date as the manufacturers report. Commercial aircraft only.
Orders by calendar year
Net orders, meaning new orders minus cancellations, counted in aircraft. The four manufacturers do not all report in the same way, so read the notes underneath before comparing them.
| Year | Airbus | Boeing | Embraer | ATR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 So far | 1,091 31 August | 453 to 31 August | 21note to 31 March | 54note to early September |
| 2025 | 889 | 1,075 | 194 | 60note |
| 2024 | 826 | 377 | 118 | 56 |
| 2023 | 2,094 | 1,314 | 71 | 40 |
| 2022 | 820 | 774 | 23 | n/pnote |
| 2021 | 507 | 479 | 92 | 35note |
| 2020 | 268 | −471note | −13 | 6 |
| 2019 | 768 | 54note | 59 | 79 |
| 2018 | 747 | 893 | 23 | 52 |
| 2017 | 1,109 | 912 | 86 | 113 |
| 2016 | 731 | 668 | 45 | 36 |
| 2016 to 2025 | 8,759 | 6,075 | 698 | 477 |
What the numbers sayAirbus is ahead of Boeing on net orders for 2026 so far, having already passed its total for the whole of 2025 by the end of August. Boeing outsold Airbus in 2025 for the first time since 2018. Among the smaller manufacturers, Embraer booked its strongest year of the decade in 2025.
The decade at a glance
Two charts, because the two pairs sell on very different scales. Paler bars show the year still in progress.
Airbus and Boeing
Net orders a year, in aircraft.
- Airbus
- Boeing
Embraer and ATR
Orders a year, in aircraft. Note the smaller scale.
- Embraer
- ATR
Signed and cancelled: Airbus and Boeing
Gross orders count every aircraft signed for in the year. Net orders take off the cancellations. The gap between the two shows how much of the order book was lost.
| Year | Airbus | Boeing | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross | Cancelled | Net | Gross | Cancelled | Net | |
| 2026 So far | 1,157 | 66 | 1,091 | 498 | 45 | 453 |
| 2025 | 1,000 | 111 | 889 | 1,175 | 100 | 1,075 |
| 2024 | 878 | 52 | 826 | 569 | 192 | 377 |
| 2023 | 2,319 | 225 | 2,094 | 1,456 | 142 | 1,314 |
| 2022 | 1,078 | 258 | 820 | 938 | 164 | 774 |
| 2021 | 771 | 264 | 507 | 909 | 430 | 479 |
| 2020 | 383 | 115 | 268 | 184 | 655 | −471 |
| 2019 | 1,131 | 363 | 768 | 246 | 192 | 54 |
| 2018 | 831 | 84 | 747 | 1,085 | 192 | 893 |
| 2017 | 1,229 | 120 | 1,109 | 1,053 | 141 | 912 |
| 2016 | 949 | 218 | 731 | 848 | 180 | 668 |
How to read these figures
What each number means
- Airbus
- Net orders as reported by Airbus.
- Boeing
- Net orders after cancellations and conversions, before Boeing's accounting adjustment for orders it considers at risk.
- Embraer
- E-Jets and E2 only. Embraer does not publish a yearly order total, so this is the change in its cumulative firm orders between year ends.
- ATR
- Orders as announced by ATR in its annual results. ATR has only recently separated gross from net.
Notes on individual years
- 2026Embraer: reports its order backlog quarterly. The 2026 figure covers the first quarter only.
- 2026ATR: publishes a total once a year. The 2026 figure is a count of orders announced so far.
- 2025ATR: 60 is the gross figure for 2025. ATR also reported 50 net.
- 2022ATR: no order total was published for 2022.
- 2021ATR: the 2021 figure includes letters of intent as well as firm orders.
- 2020Boeing: cancellations exceeded new orders in 2020, so the net figure is negative.
- 2019Boeing: the 737 MAX was grounded from March 2019.
Commercial aircraft only. Business jets, military aircraft and freighter conversions are not counted. "n/p" means the manufacturer did not publish a figure. Compiled by The Aviation Hub from the manufacturers' own order and delivery reports and results statements, with trade press used where a manufacturer gives no total. Figures are sometimes revised after publication. Spotted an error? Email us. For the full story of both manufacturers, see The Ultimate Guide to Aviation in the shop.