The latest issue is Q4 & Year-end 2025.
Summary Data : Engines. 3
Summary Data : Aircraft. 5
Industry Overview: Year-end 2025. 8
There is a new aircraft backlog record and a new engine order book record. There were more aircraft and engine orders than in 2024 as well as more aircraft and engine deliveries. The really big thing about 2025 was that the passenger widebody backlog hit a record high, smashing the long-standing 2014 record.
Engines: 2025 at a glance. 11
The engine order intake was 1,248 larger than in 2024 made up of 580 more single-aisle engines and 668 more widebody engines. The widebody engine order intake was just short of double the 2024 intake. Engine install numbers were up in 2025 with 418 more single-aisle engine installs and 148 more widebody engine installs. The 2025 widebody engine install total was the largest annual total since 2019.
The Engine Order Book: 12
Over 30,500 engines on firm order – a new engine order book record.
Not only is it the first time that there have been over 30,500 large civil jet engines on firm order, at the end of December last year there were over 5,500 widebody engines on firm order, also a record. The total engine order book grew by 684 engines last year but there are now 278 fewer single-aisle engines on firm order than at the start of 2025, but 962 more widebody engines.
The Firm Jet Engine Order Book. 14
Single-aisle and Widebody engines on firm order. 19
Engine Orders. 30
Engine Installs. 33
Quarterly Engine Installs 37
The Large Commercial Jet Aircraft Backlog : 39
2025 will probably be remembered as the year when demand for widebody aircraft recovered. There was a huge increase in the passenger widebody backlog, up 589 aircraft since the start of the year. The passenger widebody backlog record set at the end of 2014 was broken. Single-aisle aircraft do represent the largest share of the backlog (81.8% at the end of December) but there has been very little change to the single-aisle backlog over the past two years and there are currently slightly fewer on backlog than at the start of the year.
Orders for Large Commercial Jets : 54
The 2025 aircraft order intake was the third largest of the last 10 years and rather a long way behind the 2023 order intake. However, there were orders for 728 more aircraft than in 2024, made up of 235 more single-aisles and 493 more widebodies. The total of 869 widebodies ordered in 2025 was the largest number ever ordered in a single year and it was made up of 826 passenger widebodies and 43 freighters. Airbus took the most orders for single-aisles and freighters last year while Boeing dominated the passenger widebody market with over two thirds of all orders.
Deliveries of Large Commercial Jets : 61
There were 283 more aircraft deliveries last year than in 2024. Just three quarters of that gain this year would make 2026 a new record year. It is possible but one has to remember that delivery numbers dropped in 2024 and, also, that most of the gain in delivery numbers last year was due to Boeing delivering 252 more aircraft than in 2024. Airbus delivered 27 more aircraft and COMAC delivered four more.
Aircraft Production Rates : 70
Engine Programs : The Firm Order Books: 72
Appendices:
Appendix 1. Fourth Quarter 2025 Orders for Large Commercial Jet Aircraft. 86
Appendix 2. Fourth Quarter 2025 Orders for Large Civil Jet Engines. 89
Appendix 3. Deliveries of Large Commercial Jets in the Fourth Quarter 2025. 91
Appendix 4. Installs of Large Civil Jet Engines in the Fourth Quarter 2025. 101
Appendix 5. Undelivered Orders : Large Commercial Jet Aircraft. 109