Overview
- Up to 628 A320-family jets are being checked for potential fuselage panel defects, a figure Airbus calls a maximum for inspection purposes.
- Airbus says only a portion of the inspected aircraft will require corrective work as the pool of potentially affected jets narrows.
- The delivery goal for 2025 has been reduced to 790 aircraft from 820 due to the supplier quality issue affecting A320-family deliveries.
- Days earlier, Airbus ordered an urgent software replacement on about 6,000 A320s after a JetBlue incident, with fewer than 100 aircraft still grounded by Monday.
- Airbus reports no major disruption to global traffic, and its shares rose roughly 2.3% in Paris after the update as analysts had flagged the prior target as at risk.