Boeing has added 30 new orders for the 737 Max from unidentified customers in the past week, pushing the re-engined and updated narrowbody’s order backlog beyond the 2,000 mark.
The latest orders push the total 737 Max backlog to 2,010 orders from customers, with a total value of $209 billion.
Boeing is scheduled to deliver the CFM International Leap-1B-powered 737 Max 8 in the third quarter of 2017.
“Two thousand orders at this stage in the programme is a remarkable achievement,” says Keith Leverkuhn, Boeing’s vice-president and general manager of the 737 Max programme.
Boeing launched the 737 Max in August 2011 at a time when Airbus had already amassed more than 800 orders for the re-engined A320neo family unveiled nine months earlier.
Airbus has maintained a strong lead in the orders race with a current backlog of 2,645, but Boeing whittled its rival’s advantage to less than 650 aircraft with the latest announcement.
Boeing’s slightly higher market share since the launch of the 737 Max “proves the value this airplane offers to our cutomers”, Leverkuhn says in a statement.
An edit has been made to the second paragraph to correct a "million" to billion
Source: Cirium Dashboard
