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Airbus plans to deliver 700 planes in the year 2022, resuming pre-crisis pace
Airbus A320neo
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Airbus A320neo
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Rafael Ramos
9/28/2022
Last Friday, the 23rd, the Capital Market Day took place, an event in which, among other information, Airbus said that it aims to deliver “about” 700 commercial aircraft this year. Before the crisis caused by the coronavirus, the demand for commercial aircraft was high and growing, leading the company to deliver almost 1000 aircraft in 2019.
Confirmation of this target was important, as several market analysts were in doubt whether the European manufacturer could even achieve it.
Achieving that goal in a year when supply chain problems are hitting the industry hard appears to be difficult, but Airbus remained confident. "But we are fully engaged with our suppliers to deliver on our commitments to customers," said Dominik Asam, Chief Financial Officer, Airbus.
The manufacturer will have to practically double the average monthly production of planes, from the current 47 planes to 80. The biggest difficulty, however, would be with the delivery of the engines, which continue to be the bottleneck of the operations, since the main manufacturers of aeronautical engines face problems such as the lack of semiconductors.
Even so, Airbus managed to reduce the number of aircraft called “gliders” – planes that do not yet have engines – from 29 units per month to less than 10 units per month.
Until August of this year, 382 aircraft had been delivered. An average of 80 deliveries per month, including the month of September, must be respected in order to have 320 more aircraft in the next four months of the year.
Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury said the company works fully engaged with more than 3,200 suppliers to achieve the targets.
Airbus A321LR
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Rafael Ramos
Aviation enthusiast from an early age, he had his first contacts with the area developing that good old habit of spending dozens of hours in front of the screens of Micrsoft Flight Simulator and other simulators. With a solid background in various technological areas, including engineering and chemistry, Rafael has rejoined aviation as editor and author of articles and materials on our portal, providing invaluable help to the dynamics and expansion of the website and the aeronautical community, bringing us the news and updates so indispensable for us to remain current in our area of operation.
   
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