The aircraft manufacturer Airbus will slowly pick up the pace, while
increasing the production of the A320 family more slowly. A paradox
linked to the Covid-19 pandemic.
While the aeronautics sector is
emerging from a difficult year and is preparing to live a still very
delicate year 2021, Airbus communicated on January 21 on the production
rates of the aircraft of the A320 family, and confirmed that it There
would be no change in the production of its large aircraft, the A350 and
the A330.
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Production on the rise but under control
Airbus says it: the
'updating' of the planning of the production rates of its A320s is done
according to the needs of the market. While its average A320 production
is currently 40 per month, it will climb to 43 in the third quarter,
then 45 in the fourth quarter.
The rates have obviously been
revised downwards, and even more because of a crisis that dragged on.
Initially, a peak of 47 aircraft / month was forecast for July 2021.
Before the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, Airbus produced 60 A320s
and A321s each month.
The A220s, from Canadian Bombardier and
manufactured in its Mobile factories in the United States and Mirabel in
Canada, will see their monthly production rate drop from 4 to 5 at the
end of the first quarter of 2021. On recent single-aisle aircraft,
Airbus complies thus to what was originally planned.
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Airbus will take its troubles patiently
'Rid' of the A380, whose
fate was already sealed long before the Covid-19 landed in our lives,
Airbus is now focusing on the A350 and the A330 in the widebody market.
And the European aircraft manufacturer announces that their production
should remain stable compared to current levels. It should therefore
produce 5 A350s and 2 A330s per month this year. Airbus wished to
reassure its customers and prospects by indicating that the A350 would
not suffer an increase in its prices.
Airbus, like almost the
entire aeronautics sector, does not expect a return to normal by 2023 to
2025. This is true for airlines as well as manufacturers and their
subcontractors, for the moment all held by the evolution of the pandemic
situation in the world.
The drop in work that Airbus has to face
has led the group to announce the elimination of 15,000 jobs in its
worldwide workforce, including 5,000 in France. With consequences to be
deplored in many partners of society, condemned to arm themselves with
patience.
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