Airbus Deliveries Pick Up in July, Aided by Virus Workaround
Passenger aircraft, manufactured by Airbus SE, at the Airbus aircraft assembly factory in Toulouse.
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Airbus SE managed to expand deliveries to its airline customers last month, even as the coronavirus outbreak weighed on travel demand, people familiar with the matter said.
The tally for July handovers exceeded the 36 recorded in June, and was boosted by a system that delegates some essential customer checks to the manufacturer’s own engineers, according to the people, who asked not to be named discussing data that’s due to be made public later Thursday. Deliveries may have reached the low 40s, one of them said.