Boeing profit jumps 38 percent on higher jet deliveries

[April 22, 2015] (Reuters) - Boeing Co reported a 38 percent increase in quarterly profit, helped by rising demand for commercial aircraft.

Net income rose to $1.34 billion, or $1.87 per share, in the first quarter ended March 31, from $965 million, or $1.28 per share, a year earlier.

Core earnings, which exclude pension and other costs, rose to $1.97 per share from $1.76.

Revenue rose 8 percent to $22.15 billion.

Commercial aircraft deliveries rose 14 percent to 184.

(Reporting by Sagarika Jaisinghani in Bengaluru; Editing by Savio D'Souza)

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