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Production cuts for the A320

Written by thomas · Filed Under Aeronautics News 

February 28, 2009

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Airbus has announced that it is about to take the “precautionary” measure of reducing the production of the A320 from 36 to 34 aircraft monthly beginning in October, and that it will keep the A330 / A340 production at the current level of 8.5 monthly instead of increasing it to 10 as was previously planned.

Airbus CEO, Tom Enders, has said the reduction is not going to force any employment cuts. Also, he insisted in that the delivery target for 2009 remains at 480 aircraft. Based on the given numbers, the company will produce 426 A320 and 102 A330 / 340 this year, plus an uncertain amount of the huge A380.

This production cut is a continuation of similar measures taken during the last quarter of 2008, when Airbus decided not to increase the production of the A320 while increasing the production of the A330 / 340 to 10 a month.

Enders said that the company monitors constantly the market and has detected a drop of air traffic in most regions, thus it is not discarding further production cuts if necessary.

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