The first quarter of 2015 for Boeing Commercial Airplanes saw a 14 percent increase in commercial airplane deliveries compared to the first quarter of 2014. Airplane Programs delivered 184 airplanes including the first 787-9 Dreamliner assembled at Boeing South Carolina.
Boeing was also named Eco-Company of the Year by the trade publication Air Transport World for its “ever-more fuel- and emissions-efficient airplanes,” its global effort to develop sustainable aviation biofuel and the eco Demonstrator Program, which tests new technologies to improve fuel efficiency and reduce emissions and noise