Airbus’ filings confirm it needs to deliver 235 aircraft to reach year-end goal
It also confirmed that Abra Group ordered 25 A320neo aircraft in January.
Airbus has released its October 2025 orders and deliveries update, indicating that with 78 deliveries in October, the European planemaker has to hand over another 235 to reach its year-end goal of around 820 aircraft deliveries.
On November 7, 2025, Airbus published its monthly orders and deliveries filing, indicating that during the month of October, the planemaker’s customers had welcomed 78 aircraft: four A220-300, two A319neo, 25 A320neo, 37 A321neo, three A330-900, five A350-900, and two A350-1000, the latter of which went to Etihad Airways and Qatar Airways.
Among the notable deliveries were Swiss International Air Lines’ (SWISS) first A350-900, Emirates’ 10th A350-900, and Air China’s two A319neo, leaving the smallest A320neo family aircraft with 19 outstanding orders.
Year-to-date (YTD), Airbus’ deliveries now number 585 aircraft, in comparison to the 559 aircraft that it had delivered by the end of October 2024. During the latter month, it handed over 62 aircraft to its customers.
To reach its year-end delivery target of 820 aircraft, which Airbus had reiterated on multiple occasions, including in its most recent financial results announcement, it will have to deliver 235 aircraft in November and December.
While having gliders, or engineless aircraft, at its final assembly lines’ (FAL) sites is not a sign of a healthy supply chain, Guillaume Faury, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Airbus, assured stakeholders during the company’s Q3 earnings call on October 29 that the number of gliders had gone down from 60 to 32 during the quarter.
Faury added that the European planemaker has “a strong year-end rally ahead of us, and our teams are in the sprint.”
In November 2024 and December 2024, Airbus handed over 84 and 123 aircraft, respectively, enabling the planemaker to reach its goal of “around” 770 aircraft with 766 deliveries in 2024. That goal was revised downward from “around” 800 to “around” 770 jets in June 2024.
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As of October 31, Airbus had added 722 gross orders, and following 97 cancellations, including for eight A350Fs by Air Lease Corporation (ALC), 625 net orders to its overall backlog.
Only MNG Airlines, which ordered two A350Fs, and Vietjet, which firmed up orders for 100 A321neo aircraft, are known entities that had finalized deals for aircraft in October. Four other undisclosed and one private customer added orders for a total – not each – of 10 A320neo and A321neo aircraft.
In total, Airbus added 112 gross orders in October.
Out of the eight customers that remained confidential as of September, Airbus only revealed one: Arba Group. The parent company of avianca and Gol Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes (GOL), as well as a strategic investor in Wamos Air, announced that it had added another 50 A320neos to its fleet order, bringing its total commitments for the type to 138 aircraft.
It also signed a lease agreement for up to five A330-900s with Avolon, and a letter of intent (LoI) for a further two with an unidentified lessor.
Not present in Airbus’ September orders and deliveries filings, Abra Group now has a backlog of 50 A320neo and five A350-900 aircraft. avianca, which at the end of September had orders for 79 A320neos, now has 80.
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