Airbus has delivered around 735 planes in 2023, industry sources said on Tuesday, surpassing the European plane maker’s forecast of 720 planes. The company did not want to comment on this information.
After a difficult summer in terms of deliveries (52 aircraft delivered in August and 55 in September), Airbus accelerated its production rate to exceed its initial estimate, with a factory leaving rate of more than 80 aircraft each month at the end of anus.
Deliveries are a reliable indicator of profitability in aviation because airlines foot most of the bill when they take possession of planes.
A complete order book
The year was also marked by major order announcements for Airbus, notably at the Paris Air Show. During the few days of the exhibition, the aircraft manufacturer registered orders for more than 500 aircraft, thus dominating Boeing, its American rival.
At the end of October, Airbus totaled 1,334 net orders since the beginning of the year, more than double its deliveries in the same interval and much more than the whole of 2022 (820), which was already the best harvest since 2017. Meanwhile, the This figure has continued to increase since, in mid-December, the Turkish airline Turkish Airlines ordered 150 A321 and 70 A350 aircraft from Airbus.
Source: BFM TV
