The Boeing Company - General Discussion

There are 11,009 Boeing passengers jets in service around the world, and as of Tuesday, 6,614 of those are parked and stored, according to Cirium’s database.

62% of all Boeing passenger jets in the world are grounded

In March, Boeing delivered just 12 passenger planes to airlines. Ten of those are now parked and stored, according to flight data from Flightradar24. Another, a United Airlines 777-300ER, has been pressed into service carrying cargo. Only one, a Japan Airlines 787, is in scheduled passenger service.

Last month, Cathay signed extended leases of 10 years or more on a dozen 777-300ERs with BOC Aviation. And according to a senior executive with an aircraft lessor — who asked not to be identified to preserve business relations with Boeing — Cathay is in talks with a different lessor to extend the leases on another 10 777-300ERs for another decade.



“Unofficially, Cathay is saying it won’t take the 777Xs,” said the senior lessor executive.

Scott Hamilton, Bainbridge Island-based aviation analyst with Leeham.net, agreed, noting that if Boeing takes U.S. government support, it wouldn’t look good to invest billions in Brazil.

“I think that deal is dead for the next two years,” said Hamilton.