read moreIn March, Boeing booked orders for 53 planes, while customers canceled orders for 15 jets - including three of its 787s.
Net of canceled orders and swapped models, Boeing had 38 orders, it said.
For the first three months of the year, Boeing's orders rose to 167 from 114, Boeing said.
Taking out cases where customers canceled orders or swapped models, orders stood at 145, up from 107, Boeing reported.
After adjustments for deals deemed unlikely to result in actual delivery, net orders year to date dropped to 76 from 179, Boeing said.