Airbus May Open Assembly Line in U.S. to Lift Local Appeal
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Airbus SAS, whose parent lost out to Boeing Co. in a U.S. tender to supply refueling aircraft, may add a final assembly line in the U.S. to buoy sales in the world’s No. 1 market for single-aisle planes, an executive said.
The European planemaker, which has final assembly lines in Toulouse, France, and Hamburg, Germany, as well as Tianjin, China, may find that adding a similar operation in the U.S. increases visibility with potential clients, Hans Peter Ring, chief financial officer of Airbus parent European Aeronautic, Defence & Space Co., said today in an interview.