Boeing Co said on Thursday it delivered 124 commercial planes in the third quarter, up from 113 in the third quarter a year earlier.
The company said 100 of those deliveries were of its 737 Next Generation, compared with 90 a year earlier. The deliveries bring the 2010 total so far to 346 planes for Boeing Commercial Airplanes, which competes with Airbus (EAD.PA).
Boeing said last month it would boost production of its narrow-body 737 plane to 38 per month in 2013 to meet expected long-term demand in that market.
Boeing's commercial airplane division is recovering from a relatively weak 2009 when it received 142 orders, down 61% from the previous year, as airlines struggled with weaker travel demand during the economic recession.
Also on Thursday, Boeing said it took 104 new orders for commercial planes in the week ended Oct. 5.
Air Lease Corp bought 54 737s, Xiamen Airlines ordered 10 737s, and an unidentified customer or customers ordered 40 737s, it said.
Disclosing previously unidentified buyers, Boeing said FedEx (FDX.N) had ordered two wide-body 777s and Luxair ordered one 737.
Boeing, which gets paid for its planes at delivery, has a net total of 392 orders on its books for 2010 so far, up from 263 for all of 2009.