Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury informed CNBC on Tuesday that the airplane maker stays on tempo to ship about 820 business plane in 2025, whilst engine manufacturing delays proceed to restrict its capabilities.
In an interview with CNBC’s Phil LeBeau, Faury stated the European firm is “on track” with plane manufacturing and has been making “gliders,” or completed planes with out engines, because it awaits engine deliveries from producers CFM International and Pratt & Whitney.
“All our attention will be on engine deliveries from both CFM and Pratt & Whitney, but they’re telling us that they will be able to deliver what we need. So we remain positive for the back end of the year,” Faury stated.
Airbus delivered 61 planes in August, bringing its whole for the 12 months to 434. U.S. rival Boeing introduced Tuesday it delivered 57 planes in August and 385 up to now in 2025, persevering with to path Airbus in that metric. Boeing hasn’t issued delivery guidance for the 12 months.
Aircraft producers have confronted engine manufacturing delays for years. RTX, which owns Pratt & Whitney, in 2023 stated engine manufacturing defects would influence a whole bunch of engines via 2027.
Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury speaks through the Airbus summit 2025 on the Airbus headquarters in Toulouse, southern France, on March 24, 2025.
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Faury attributed the engine delivery delays to high quality points and employee strikes.
“But I think basically they have the capabilities to produce the volumes that are expected, so I hope they will be back on track and then delivering on their commitments,” he stated.
Airbus has maintained its deliveries goal all year long, whilst tariffs have threatened to roil its enterprise. The present U.S. commerce agreement with the European Union, nevertheless, spares the plane business from President Donald Trump’s “reciprocal tariffs.”
Faury on Tuesday stated he believes the tariff reduction is “the right thing to do.” But what continues to fret him most in regards to the world economic system is uncertainty, he stated.
“We are long-term industries. We need visibility. We need predictability. And all this change is not predictable, and having to adapt all the time is slowing us down,” Faury stated.