Commercial aircraft order backlog
RecordSTO-GY6KQ0AFTC-J3T90JYWH4-2H8XZF
Global · as of 2 Jun 2025
Commercial aircraft order backlog worldwide was more than 17,000 (IATA, published 2 June 2025).
- Publisher
- IATA
- Authority tier
- T2 Official
- Locator
- Fleet/Supply Chain
- Retrieved
- 14 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
The aircraft backlog exceeds 17,000 (sharply up from the 10,000-11,000 pre-pandemic), with an implied wait time of 14 years.
Checked: the figure 17,000is stated in this passage. If it does not match, the extraction is wrong and we want to know.
Cite this figure
APA
International Air Transport Association. (2025). Airline Profitability to Strengthen Slightly in 2025 Despite Headwinds. Retrieved September 14, 2026, from https://www.iata.org/en/pressroom/2025-releases/2025-06-02-01/. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_GY6KQ0AFTCJ3T90JYWH42H8XZF
Other formats: MLA, Chicago, BibTeX
- MLA
- International Air Transport Association. "Airline Profitability to Strengthen Slightly in 2025 Despite Headwinds." 2025, https://www.iata.org/en/pressroom/2025-releases/2025-06-02-01/. Accessed 14 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_GY6KQ0AFTCJ3T90JYWH42H8XZF.
- Chicago
- International Air Transport Association. "Airline Profitability to Strengthen Slightly in 2025 Despite Headwinds." 2025. https://www.iata.org/en/pressroom/2025-releases/2025-06-02-01/. Accessed September 14, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_GY6KQ0AFTCJ3T90JYWH42H8XZF.
- BibTeX
- @misc{iata2025aircraft2h8xzf, author = {{International Air Transport Association}}, title = {Airline Profitability to Strengthen Slightly in 2025 Despite Headwinds}, year = {2025}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_GY6KQ0AFTCJ3T90JYWH42H8XZF}, note = {Original source: https://www.iata.org/en/pressroom/2025-releases/2025-06-02-01/. Accessed September 14, 2026.} }
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Provenance and verification
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Primary source
- Publisher
- International Air Transport Association · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 2 · National and industry official
- Report
- Airline Profitability to Strengthen Slightly in 2025 Despite Headwinds
- Type
- Press release
- Published
- 2 June 2025
- Locator
- Fleet/Supply Chain
- Retrieved
- 14 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- Proprietary report; figure taken from its public summary
Verification
- Status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- editorial:judge-fix-v1:2026-09-27
- Checked on
- 27 September 2026
- Last revision
- 27 September 2026
- Permanent URL
- /stat/stat_GY6KQ0AFTCJ3T90JYWH42H8XZF