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Posted on July 30, 2025
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Add as preferred source on GoogleAirbus faces delays with 60 jets awaiting engines, including from Pratt & Whitney. Despite this, they aim for 820 jet deliveries by 2025 and plan a new assembly line in China.
PARIS (Reuters) -Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury said the number of completed airframes still waiting for delayed engine deliveries had risen to 60 and that the delays now involved Pratt & Whitney on top of earlier problems with rival CFM.
Speaking in a half-yearly media briefing, however, Faury defended the company's target of raising deliveries by 7% to 820 jets for 2025 as a whole, which he said was supported by an agreement with the engine makers to secure enough deliveries.
He also said Airbus was progressing towards the planned opening of a second assembly line in China at end-2025 and, on defence, pledged to stay onboard a Franco-German-Spanish fighter project despite tensions with partner Dassault Aviation.
(Reporting by Tim Hepher, Editing by Benoit Van Overstraeten and Ros Russell)
Airbus is currently waiting for engines for 60 completed airframes.
The delays now also involve Pratt & Whitney.
Airbus aims to raise deliveries by 7% to a total of 820 jets for the year 2025.
Airbus is progressing towards opening a second assembly line in China by the end of 2025.
Airbus pledged to remain involved in a Franco-German-Spanish fighter project despite challenges.
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