Top Five Issues Impacting Commercial Aviation in 2026



It was a duopoly delivery blowout weekend. The chart above this story shows industry deliveries for December over the past few years. Here’s a table with the associated data. The key numbers are in the last column. We’re far off…


It’s December 15, halfway through the month. Here’s our delivery score as of this hour. Their targets weren’t the same: Airbus started at ~820 and then dropped to ~790. How they close the gap is going to be something miraculous.…


[UPDATE – We found more deliveries. Here’s our count as of 12 It’s only 36 needed to hit 590.] Boeing did not provide an official 2025 delivery target, focusing instead on stabilizing production. But sources like Forecast International predicted that…