Airbus Goes Slow On A220 Output As Factories Near `Highest Risk’

By Frederic Tomesco and Julie Johnsson, Bloomberg

Now that Airbus SE is starting to see fresh sales momentum for its sleek A220 jet, it faces a different challenge: getting the small single-aisle planes to impatient customers.

The airliner formerly known as the C Series has amassed a backlog of 480 unfilled orders under Airbus and Canada’s Bombardier Inc., which handed control of its marquee jet to the European planemaker in July after years of disappointing orders.

But it won’t be until the middle of next decade that Airbus reaches the peak production target of 14 jets a month, shared across two factories: four a month at a yet-to-be-built plant in Mobile (groundbreaking is scheduled for Wednesday), and 10 at the original assembly line in Mirabel, Quebec. That’s a slower ramp-up than Bombardier envisioned in late 2017, when it said Mirabel would deliver as many as 10 of the planes a month in 2020.

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