United Airlines Holdings, Inc.
Take delivery of 45 Airbus A350-900 aircraft
Not delivered by the deadline
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- Announced
- 19 Oct 2017
- Due
- 31 Dec 2022
- Checked
- 13 Oct 2026
- Deadline
- Met
- Late
- Not met
- Today
What the company said
“Modified Airbus A350 order Deferred delivery by four years to 2022. Changed model type to A350-900 Increased order size from 35 to 45 aircraft”
What we found
Evidence strength A What the grades mean
United Airlines did not take delivery of the 45 Airbus A350-900 aircraft by the 2022 deadline; SEC filings from early 2023 confirm the entire order remained as firm commitments scheduled for after 2024.
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A United Airlines Holdings 10-K filed 2023-02-16
“As of December 31, 2022, United had firm commitments to purchase aircraft from Boeing and Airbus presented in the table below: ... A350 45 — — 45” ✓ confirmed on the page
Market reaction: the shares moved +0.2% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (15 Feb 2023 to 21 Feb 2023). What this measures
Checked 13 Oct 2026.
Commitment DNA
The structured record of this commitment. Fields the company did not state are left blank rather than guessed.
- Event type
- Delivery
- Indicative materiality
- Medium rules
- Action
- Take
- Deliverable
- Airbus A350-900 aircraft
- Target
- 45 aircraft
- In the company’s control
- Medium
- Specificity
- High
- Depends on
- Supplier
How this entry was checked
- Commitment recordedThe company's words were matched word for word against the filing.
- First checkAn AI model, Gemini (Google), read the company's later filings and recorded the outcome with a quoted passage.
- Second check: agreesA different AI model, Claude (Anthropic), re-read the evidence without being told the outcome and reached the same answer.
- Third check on a negative finding: agreesBecause a negative finding could harm a company if wrong, a stronger model re-read the evidence fully blind and reached the same answer.
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