Take delivery of 13 Boeing 737-9 MAX aircraft
Delivered by the deadline
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- Announced
- 23 Nov 2020
- Due
- 31 Dec 2022
- Delivered
- by 31 Dec 2022
- Deadline
- Met
- Late
- Not met
- Today
What the company said
“The 13 737-9 MAX aircraft will be delivered from fourth quarter 2021 through 2022.”
What we found
Evidence strength A What the grades mean
Alaska Air Group received 26 Boeing 737-9 aircraft in 2022, which exceeds the commitment to take delivery of 13 such aircraft by the end of that year.
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A Alaska Air Group 10-K filed 2023-02-13
“Alaska received 26 B737-9 aircraft in 2022” ✓ confirmed on the page
Market reaction: the shares moved -0.1% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (10 Feb 2023 to 15 Feb 2023). What this measures
Checked 21 Oct 2026.
Commitment lineage
Every time the company restated this commitment. The original is never changed, and the outcome is always measured against version 1.
- Deadline drift +365 days
- Scope drift +230.8%
- Language weakened: firm → expected
- 5 versions
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Version 1 · original · stated 23 Nov 2020
Deadline 31 Dec 2022 (“through 2022”) · target 13 aircraft · wording firm
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Version 2 · stated 22 Dec 2020
Deadline 31 Dec 2021 (“in 2021”) · target 13 planes · wording firm
“Alaska is scheduled to receive 13 planes in 2021”
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Version 3 · stated 22 Dec 2020
Deadline 31 Dec 2022 (“in 2022”) · target 30 planes
“30 in 2022”
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Version 4 · stated 22 Dec 2020
Deadline 31 Dec 2023 (“in 2023”) · target 13 planes
“13 in 2023”
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Version 5 · stated 22 Dec 2020
Deadline 31 Dec 2024 (“in 2024”) · target 12 planes
“12 in 2024”
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Version 6 · stated 22 Dec 2020
Deadline 31 Dec 2024 (“between 2021 and 2024”) · target 68 aircraft · wording firm
“We will take delivery of a total of 68 737-9 MAX aircraft (inclusive of 32 previous purchase commitments and 13 leased aircraft to be acquired through the recently announced agreement with Air Lease Corporation) between”
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Version 7 · stated 24 May 2021
Deadline 31 Dec 2024 (“2024”) · target 13 aircraft
“13 Boeing 737-9 MAX options were exercised with deliveries slated for 2023 and 2024.”
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Version 8 · stated 26 Oct 2022
Deadline 31 Dec 2027 (“between 2024 and 2027”) · target 52 aircraft
“exercising options to purchase 52 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft for delivery between 2024 and 2027”
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Version 9 · stated 26 Oct 2022
Deadline 31 Dec 2023 (“the end of 2023”) · target 43 aircraft · wording expected
“expect to accept delivery of another 43 MAX aircraft between now and the end of 2023”
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
- 13 Boeing 737-9 MAX aircraft
- Target
- 13 aircraft
- Language
- Firm (“will”, “on track to”)
- 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.
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