Aircraft
Boeing Sees Q1 Deliveries Fall by Two-Thirds
Commercial airplane deliveries at Boeing’s Puget Sound-area and South Carolina plants decline to 50 in this year’s first quarter from 149 a year earlier.
Boeing 737 Max jets sit stored at Boeing Field in Seattle in October 2019. The company logged cancellations for 150 of the narrowbodies during March 2020. (Photo: Barry Ambrose)
Boeing 737 Max jets sit stored at Boeing Field in Seattle in October 2019. The company logged cancellations for 150 of the narrowbodies during March 2020. (Photo: Barry Ambrose)

Boeing reported a 66-percent decline in first-quarter commercial airplane deliveries compared with the same period in 2019 due primarily to the continued grounding of the 737 Max and the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, which saw the company cease production at its factories in the Puget Sound area in late March and Charleston, South Carolina, in early April.