Slight rise in Airbus deliveries in September – 09/10/2024 at 7:47 p.m.

Airbus delivered 50 new planes in September, a slight increase compared to the previous month, but increased its order book with contracts for 235 aircraft, the European aircraft manufacturer announced on Wednesday.

Deliveries in September only marked a modest increase after the 47 in August, traditionally low. The manufacturer delivered 77 planes in July, 67 in June, 53 in May and 61 in April.

Deliveries are a reliable indicator of profitability in aviation because airlines pay the majority of the bill when they take possession of the planes.

Since the start of the year, Airbus has handed over 497 aircraft to 77 customers. It warned at the end of June that it was going to deliver fewer aircraft than expected in 2024, due to persistent difficulties in its supplier chain.

While it was initially counting on the delivery of 800 planes this year, a volume close to that of 2019, the reference year before the Covid-19 pandemic torpedoed the aeronautics sector, it now plans to deliver only 770. In 2019, the European industrial giant delivered 863 devices.

At the end of September, he announced that he was going to reorganize his production by focusing on the “fundamentals” to maintain the ramp-up, while excluding any “social plan”.

On the orders side, the month of September smiled on Airbus, which increased its backlog by 50% for 2024 to 648 net units, thanks to several large orders, almost all of the A320neo and A321neo single-aisle aircraft, stars of its range: 85 aircraft (including 10 large A350 aircraft) for an unidentified customer, 80 for the lessor CDB Leasing and 70 for the company Cebu Pacific (Philippines).