Boeing was once the world's largest commercial airplane maker, but, now, that accolade has been taken by its rival, Airbus . Today, Boeing has one narrowbody body aircraft family, the Boeing 737 , and three widebody families in production, the 767, 787, and 777. However, there is a midsized gap that the Boeing 757 once filled.
Boeing was also once one of the leading space companies. However, startups like SpaceX have wreaked havoc upon its space business. At the same time, the Airbus A321XLR is filling the mid-range commercial aircraft market, and startups like JetZero are looking to unseat Boeing in its core business.
Boeing's midsized aircraft gap Boeing once served the midsized market with its long Boeing 757 medium-range narrowbody airliner and the related Boeing 767 widebody airliner. However, the Boeing 757 went out of production in 2004 after 1,050 units had been delivered. Meanwhile, the Boeing 767 is aging, and airlines stopped ordering passenger variants for it long ago.
Production of the 767 is sustained by demand for freighter variants and the militarized KC-46A Pegasus aerial tanker variant . This leaves Boeing with three aircraft families in production as passenger jets, the 737, 787, and 777. Boeing is trying to fill some of the midmarket gap with larger variants of the 737, like the MAX 10 and the smaller 787-8 Dreamliner variant.
These are the largest and smallest variants of their respective families. In a typical two-class configuration, the MAX 9 carries u.
