Airbus Beats Own Target to Deliver Record Jetliners Last Year

  • Planemaker in December handed over jets at twice monthly rate
  • 635 plane deliveries for Airbus fell short of rival Boeing
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Airbus Group SE managed to beat a company target for deliveries last year by churning out almost twice the average monthly number in December, people familiar with the achievement said.

The European planemaker reached a total of about 635 and handed over 79 units in the last month of the year alone, said the people. Airbus shipped 629 planes in 2014.