The efforts have begun to yield positive results. In April, Boeing delivered 45 commercial jets, nearly doubling the number from a year earlier. April marked the fourth consecutive month with more than 40 deliveries of commercial planes, indicating progress in stabilizing operations and fulfilling orders.

A year after Boeing Co. slogged through a deep executive shakeup and prolonged existential crisis, the US planemaker just landed its biggest-ever aircraft order, propelled by a powerful endorsement from President Donald Trump.

Boeing secured an agreement to sell up to 210 aircrafts to Qatar Airways. Qatar Airways also signed an agreement with GE Aerospace for more than 400 engines to power the Boeing planes. Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg appeared alongside President Donald Trump in Doha for a signing ceremony on the deal for the 787 Dreamliner and 777X planes.