Airbus faces growing end-year jet delivery crunch

Airbus is facing an increasingly tight end-year scramble to reach 2022 delivery goals, industry sources and preliminary data suggested on Monday, but analysts said investors would ignore a narrow miss as attention turns to 2023.

Airbus has told investors it plans to deliver “around 700” commercial aircraft in 2022.

That figure is increasingly under pressure, barring what would be a record and essentially glitch-free performance in the busy month of December, industry sources said on Monday.

“It is difficult to see them getting 700 (full-year) deliveries,” a senior supply chain source told Reuters, adding that aircraft were on average running four months late.