Airbus delivered 74 commercial aircraft to 45 customers in October 2026, according to the orders and deliveries figures on its website, which it describes as valid at the end of October. Deliveries for the first ten months of the year stand at 621 aircraft to 91 customers, and the company recorded 202 gross orders in October. Air Data News, which published a breakdown on 6 November, says October deliveries were below the 78 aircraft delivered in October 2025.

October deliveries by type

  • A220: 9 (all A220-300).
  • A320 family: 55 (39 A321neo, 15 A320neo, 1 A319neo).
  • A330: 4 (all A330-900).
  • A350: 6 (3 A350-900, 3 A350-1000).

For the year to date, Air Data News lists 77 A220s (76 A220-300 and 1 A220-100), 483 A320 family aircraft (306 A321neo, 172 A320neo and 5 A319neo), 17 A330s (16 A330-900 and 1 A330-200) and 44 A350s (30 A350-900 and 14 A350-1000). It reports the 621 total as 6.2% above the 585 delivered in the same period of 2025.

Orders

Air Data News reports 202 gross orders in October, with two cancellations and 200 net orders. For the first ten months it reports 1,376 gross orders, 71 cancellations and 1,305 net orders. Airbus’s page lists cumulative orders of 26,815 aircraft and cumulative deliveries of 17,379 across its programs; the difference, 9,436, is Lens’s own subtraction and may not match Airbus’s definition of backlog.

The 2026 target

Airbus is aiming to deliver about 870 aircraft in 2026. Air Data News calculates that 249 deliveries are still needed in November and December and notes that those two months in 2025 totaled 208 (72 in November and 136 in December), so Airbus would need about 41 more than a year earlier, nearly 20%. It reports that Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury said in late October that he was “reasonably comfortable” with meeting the target, and that engine supply remains a constraint.

Sources and notes

Sources: Airbus’s orders and deliveries page, as Lens read it on 10 November 2026, and Air Data News (Ricardo Meier, 6 November 2026), which attributes its figures to Airbus without naming a separate data source. Lens did not find an Airbus press release for the October figures and did not open the Reuters or Bloomberg reports on them; Bloomberg is reported to put the number still needed at 250 rather than 249. The year-earlier comparisons, the 249 figure and the 208 total for November and December 2025 come from Air Data News; the 9,436 difference is Lens’s calculation.

Image: An Airbus A321neo test aircraft (D-AVXA) departing Toulouse, photographed in September 2016. Photo: BriYYZ, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Stand-in file photograph; it is not an aircraft delivered in October 2026.