Airbus, 72 planes delivered in November | EUROtoday

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A tough month for Airbus which delivered 72 planes in November, down from final month when deliveries had been 78 and 84 in the identical month final yr. Since January, 657 planes have left the Toulouse factories. A number of days in the past Airbus revised the goal for the yr downwards to 790 from the 820 anticipated in January: regardless of this discount within the goal, to fulfill it the European producer should ship 133 plane in a month, a really excessive quantity considering the issues that Airbus needed to face this month from the software program replace of 6 thousand A320s to the defects within the fuselage panels of round 620 plane, attributable to a Spanish provider, the vast majority of which had been lately produced.

In addition to deliveries, Airbus mentioned in a press release that it had recorded 75 new orders in November, bringing this yr’s complete to 797, which turns into 700 web of cancellations.

Airbus’ deliveries stay greater than these of Boeing, which can publish its November information on December 9: from January to October, the American producer’s deliveries had been 493 with 782 web orders.