European company Airbus announced on Wednesday that it will reduce its 2025 delivery target to 790 aircraft from the planned 820, due to quality defects discovered this week in the fuselage of the A320, its flagship commercial aircraft model.
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“Due to a recent quality issue at a supplier regarding fuselage panels, affecting deliveries of the A320 family, Airbus SE is updating its forecast for commercial aircraft deliveries for 2025,” the company said in a statement. The company explained that it maintains its “financial expectations” for this year.
The company said on Tuesday that up to 628 A320 aircraft could be inspected after “quality issues” were discovered in their metal panels, although it clarified that this “does not necessarily mean that all aircraft are affected.”
The company said at the time in a letter sent to Agence France-Presse, in response to information published by Bloomberg and Liz Echo, that “the total number of potentially affected aircraft, whether in production or in service, is decreasing day by day as inspections progress to identify aircraft that require specific procedures.”
The company indicated that the 628 planes mentioned by the media are “an estimate of the maximum number” of planes that are likely to be inspected.
The company added that Airbus is “reviewing all potentially affected aircraft, knowing that only a portion of them will require further intervention.” The company explained that it “always acts this way when it encounters quality problems in its supply chain.”
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The manufacturer announced on Monday that it had found “quality issues” in the metal panels intended for the successful single-aisle A320 model, stating that this incident had been “identified” and “restrained”.
The European Community also announced, on Friday night, that 6,000 units of the A320 aircraft must urgently replace flight control software, which is exposed to solar radiation.
This announcement came in the wake of an incident at the end of October in the United States with a JetBlue flight, where the plane, which was flying between Cancun (Mexico) and Newark, near New York, suddenly lost altitude without the intervention of the pilots and was forced to land in Tampa, Florida.