“We have turned the page on Covid.” On the set of Good Morning Business this Wednesday, Guillaume Faury, CEO of Airbus, shows his optimism about the resumption of global air traffic.
However, if “domestic traffic has rebounded very strongly, international transport has not returned at all to the level it was before Covid and there are still many uncertainties, still somewhat linked to Covid in China and the crisis in Ukraine,” he adds. leader.
“We have more than 7,000 aircraft in the portfolio”
However, with traffic expected to increase in the coming years according to most studies and with airlines massively renewing their fleets, Airbus is seeing a leap in business.
This causes some pressure from the aircraft manufacturer on its subcontractors to maintain or even increase production rates. This causes a gnashing of teeth among some of its suppliers who consider Airbus’s strategy too optimistic.
“We have customers who want these planes as soon as possible. So the need to speed up is certainly not optimism, it’s just facing reality as it is. How fast we can speed up depends a lot on these subcontractors, we need everyone to be ready at the same time, so we try to stay the course,” explains the manager.
Source: BFM TV
