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Spirit Aero problems affected A350 deliveries
By the Leeham News Team Jan. 13, 2026, © Leeham News: Deliveries for the Airbus A350 fell last year compared with 2024, reflecting supply chain challenges. Christian Scherer, the former CEO of Airbus Commercial Aircraft, said, “The ‘stagnation’… Read More
Airbus meets revised delivery target in 2025, touts sales performance for A350
By Scott Hamilton Jan. 12, 2026, © Leeham News: Airbus confirmed today that it delivered 793 jetliners last year. This was on a target revised downward from 820 guided at the beginning of the year. A late 2025… Read More
Heading toward year-end, Airbus maintains lead in narrowbody orders but Boeing commands the widebody sector
Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton Oct. 13, 2025, © Leeham News: As the commercial airliner industry sprints to the end of this year, Boeing remains the champion in the widebody, twin-aisle sector with a commanding lead over Airbus…. Read More
How’s the next new aircraft produced? Part 6. Airbus: Production of future aircraft
Subscription Required By the Leeham News Team Sept. 22, 2025, © Leeham News: In Part 5 of this series, we described the efforts to improve Airbus’ present production, and what the learnings were from changes in the FAL… Read More
Airbus 1H2025 results: A solid first half except for 60 gliders
By Bjorn Fehrm July 31, 2025, © Leeham News: Airbus CEO Guillame Faury and CFO Thomas Toepfer presented the Airbus first half 2025 results yesterday. The Airbus performance is very much to plan, except there are 60 A320/A321… Read More
What’s the next new aircraft, Part 5
By Scott Hamilton and Bjorn Fehrm July 31, 2025, © Leeham News: We wrap up our five-part series today on What’s the Next New Airplane in the coming decades. We now look at Airplanes 9-13 in Figure 1… Read More
US Transpo Secretary supports zero tariffs on aerospace, but change isn’t assured
Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton July 7, 2025, © Leeham News: US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy wants to return to aerospace’s zero-tariff agreement, dating to 1979, but cautioned that doing so requires a larger trade agreement between party… Read More
Airbus 1Q2025 results: So far, so good, but US tariffs make future results unpredictable
May 1, 2025, © Leeham News in Toulouse: Airbus CEO Guillame Faury and CFO Thomas Toepfer presented the Airbus 1Q2025 results yesterday. All Airbus divisions performed to plan, producing a group EBIT Adjusted of 0.6bn Euro. The company… Read More
Airbus still struggles to deliver planes on time
Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton March 24, 2025, © Leeham News: Airbus continues to struggle to deliver commercial airliners to customers on time, with the A320neo and A350 families now sold out into the early 2030s. Customers complain… Read More