Given the complex panorama at the global level due to the COVID-19, Airbus and Boeing inform about your orders, deliveries and productionón.
Its miles from planes that have been grounded in a forced way, aerolíneas have returned planes, others areán starting to cancel orders before a very complex scenario and that every dayíappears to beá más serious for the industry.
With this panorama ahead, we update in this publicationón some of the más important news that Airbus and Boeing have shared regarding their orders and deliveries during this emergency.
Airbus
Afterés of an sóread performñcommercial and industrial at the beginning ofñO, Airbus ahora isá reviewing your production ratesón downward to adapt to the new market environment by the coronavirus.
In the first quarter of 2020, Airbus receivedó 290 net commercial aircraft orders and deliveriesó 122 planes, others were produced 60 planes during the quarter, However, remain undelivered due to evolutionón of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In March they delivered 36 planes throughés of the different Airbus families, in comparisonón with 55 in february 2020. This reflects the intentionón of customers to defer deliveries.
The new production ratesón average in the future have been established as follows:
- A320 40 per month
- A330 2 per month
- A350 6 per month
- 21 net orders and 36 deliveries in march 2020.
Boeing
On the side of the North American manufacturer, the situationón has been máthe measures are extreme, given that some of its employees have tested positive for COVID-19, so within this scenario, Boeing has taken the following steps:
- CEO Dave Calhoun and Chairman of the Board, Larry Kellner, give upán to all payments until the end of añO.
- Suspend Boeing operations 787 in South Carolina temporarily.
- Suspend the líproduction lineón de Puget Sound.
- Suspend the operationón of Philadelphia where the H-47 Chinook and V-22 Osprey are produced.
It is important to emphasize that both companies have carried out humanitarian transfer flights for medical equipment.édicos, donations and others, as wellén, the elaborationónumber of protective equipmentón for health personnel worldwide.
