Airbus cuts delivery target over fuselage quality issue

Paris, France: Aircraft maker Airbus said Wednesday it had lowered its 2025 target for deliveries because of fuselage panel quality issues at its flag...

Paris, France: Aircraft maker Airbus said Wednesday it had lowered its 2025 target for deliveries because of fuselage panel quality issues at its flagship model, the A320.

Airbus said it now expects full-year 2025 commercial aircraft deliveries to total 790, down from an initial target of 820, a drop of 3.7 percent.

It did not say whether 2026 deliveries would also be affected by the problem which it said stemmed from "a recent supplier quality issue on fuselage panels impacting its A320 Family delivery flow".

Airbus had warned Tuesday that up to 628 of its popular A320 planes worldwide may need to be inspected for the metal plate "quality issue".

In a message to AFP, the European aircraft manufacturer said the figure represented the "total number of potentially impacted aircraft" but "it doesn't mean all these aircraft are necessarily impacted".