Boeing deliveries to North American airlines rose more than 20 percent year over year, the strongest regional increase recorded in the Commercial Aircraft Finance Market Outlook 2026.

The report tracks how airlines pay for new aircraft. North American carriers funded most single aisle deliveries with cash through full year 2025, a pattern Boeing attributes to balance sheet strength and a preference for keeping financing capacity in reserve. Banks and lessors each held meaningful shares of single aisle financing in the region, while credit enhanced structures stayed limited.

Widebody deliveries drew a wider funding mix. Bank debt carried a higher share of widebody funding than single aisle funding, and capital markets activity returned selectively during the second half of 2025. Export credit agencies showed the sharpest shift in composition, with more than 80 percent of export credit financing supporting widebody aircraft in 2025, against a more balanced split between single aisle and widebody a year earlier.

Deliveries in the Asia Pacific region increased by just over 10 percent compared with 2024, with lessor financing remaining the most common funding route for single aisle aircraft there.

Boeing forecasts new financing volumes for the 2026 through 2030 period to run materially higher than prior years, reflecting order books and planned production increases. Yields on many transactions stayed low through 2025 and that pricing pressure carried into 2026, with lessors competing on terms across a wide range of assets, credits and jurisdictions. Asset backed securities issuance opened 2026 at a brisk pace with pricing at tight levels, while airline activity in the capital markets was less pronounced across 2025.

Source: Boeing - https://www.boeing.com/commercial/market/current-aircraft-financing-market