Overview
- Airbus targets around 870 commercial aircraft deliveries in 2026, up from 793 in 2025.
- The company said Pratt & Whitney has not committed enough A320-family engines, which is weighing on this year’s guidance and ramp-up trajectory.
- Production plans call for A320 output reaching 70–75 per month by the end of 2027 and stabilizing at 75, with A220 at 13 per month in 2028, A350 at 12 per month in 2028, and A330 at rate 5 in 2029.
- Airbus guided to adjusted EBIT of about €7.5 billion and free cash flow before customer financing of roughly €4.5 billion in 2026.
- Boeing showed early-year momentum, logging 46 deliveries and 103 net orders in January versus Airbus’s 19 deliveries and 49 net orders.