Airbus aircraft deliveries drop 40% compared to 2019

Airbus headquarters in Toulouse in April 2018 (illustrative image).

AP Photo / Fred Scheiber

Text by: RFI Follow

2 min

Airbus aircraft deliveries are in free fall.

Since January, they have experienced a drop of 40% compared to last year.

Publicity

Read more

Despite a well-filled order book, Airbus has delivered only 341 aircraft since the start of the year, compared to 571 last year.

This drop is mainly explained by the postponement of deliveries by

These deliveries are important to aircraft manufacturers, as customers pay a large portion of the bill when they take possession of the aircraft.

The sector's outlook is likely to deteriorate with the rebound in the epidemic and new travel restrictions.

To face the crisis, Airbus has already embarked on a vast restructuring plan which provides for the elimination of 15,000 jobs, a third of which in France.

In the wake of the European group, almost all of Airbus' subcontractors have also announced social plans or workforce reductions.

Airbus delivered 57 planes in September compared to 71 last year, and has not recorded any new orders due to the impact of the coronavirus epidemic on the aviation sector, the European aircraft manufacturer announced on Friday.

Newsletter

Receive all the international news directly in your mailbox

I subscribe

Follow all the international news by downloading the RFI application

google-play-badge_FR

• Transport

• Economy

• Coronavirus

On the same subject

Today the economy

The air transport crisis causes a massacre of job cuts

International guest

United States: an airline sector "in absolute disaster"

Singapore Airlines gives up 'flights to nowhere' after protests