Airbus alerts suppliers to single-aisle ramp up
Airbus has told suppliers to prepare for a ramp up in production as the commercial aircraft market recovers to pre-COVID levels between 2023 and 2025.
According to Airbus, suppliers are being advised to ‘schedule necessary investments and secure long-term capacity and production rate readiness’ in line with the expected recovery, which is being driven by single-aisle aircraft.
“The aviation sector is beginning to recover from the COVID-19 crisis”, Guillaume Faury, Airbus CEO said in a statement. “The message to our supplier community provides visibility to the entire industrial ecosystem to secure the necessary capabilities and be ready when market conditions call for it. In parallel, we are transforming our industrial system by optimising our aerostructures set-up and modernising our A320 Family production facilities. All these actions are set in motion to prepare our future.”
Aerospace sector support will enable recovery and future innovation
Production of A320s will average 45 aircraft per month in the fourth quarter of 2021, rising to a firm rate of 64 by the second quarter of 2023. Suppliers are being asked to anticipate a scenario of rate 70 by the first quarter of 2024 and as many as 75 by 2025.
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