Airbus reduced its target of delivering 820 commercial aircraft this year, to “around 790”, after detecting a quality problem in the fuselage of the A320 family aircraft that could affect up to 628 units.
In a statement, the European aircraft manufacturer explained that it lowered its target “in light of the recent supplier quality issue on fuselage panels, which affected the flow of deliveries of the A320 family”.
The reduction of this target (-3.7% for the year) occurs in a period of turbulence for the European aircraft manufacturer, which last week recalled 6,000 A320 model aircraft for an urgent software update.
Even so, the company insisted that these problems do not imply changing the financial forecasts it had indicated in October, when it stated that it had achieved in the first nine months of the year an adjusted net operating result of around seven billion euros and a cash flow of around 4.5 billion.
By the end of October, Airbus had delivered 585 aircraft to its customers, far from the 820 set in the initial target. Next Friday, the company will publish the figures for aircraft delivered by the end of November.
In 2024, Airbus delivered 766 aircraft, more than in 2023, when it delivered 735.