Boeing Delivers Fewest Jets in Four Years Due to Strike’s Toll

Boeing Co. delivered 14 jetliners in October, its lowest monthly total since November 2020, as a strike by the company’s largest union hamstrung its operations.

At the peak of the labor strife in October, Boeing handed over just nine of its 737 Max jets, four 787 Dreamliners and one 767 freighter. It also recorded 63 gross aircraft orders in the month against no cancellations.

After 33,000 hourly workers walked off the job on Sept. 13, Boeing was able to continue making some aircraft deliveries by using non-unionized employees in the Pacific Northwest and at its 787 Dreamliner factory in South ...