Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury told CNBC on Tuesday that The aircraft manufacturer remains employed to deliver around 820 commercial planes in 2025, even if engine production delays continue to limit its capacities.
In an interview with Phil Lebeau de CNBC, Faury said that the European company was “on the right track” with the production of aircraft and had made “gliders” or finished aircraft without engines, because it awaits the delivery of engine from CFM International and Pratt & Whitney.
“Our attention will be on delivery of CFM and Pratt & Whitney engines, but they tell us that they will be able to deliver what we need. We therefore remain positive for the end of the year,” said Faury.
Airbus delivered 61 planes in August, bringing its total for the year to 434. US Rival Boeing Announced Tuesday that he delivered 57 planes in August and 385 so far in 2025, continuing to follow Airbus in this metric. Boeing did not publish delivery advice for the year.
Aircraft manufacturers are faced with engine production delays for years. RTXWho owned Pratt & Whitney, in 2023, said that engine manufacturing defects would affect hundreds of engines until 2027.
The CEO of Airbus, Guillaume Faury, speaks at the Airbus 2025 summit at Airbus headquarters in Toulouse, in the south of France, March 24, 2025.
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Faury allocated engine delivery delays to quality problems and workers’ strikes.
“But I think that fundamentally, they have the capacity to produce the volumes that are expected, so I hope they will be back on the right track and then deliver their commitments,” he said.
Airbus has maintained its delivery goal throughout the year, even threatened to hike. The current American trade agreement with the European Union, however, spares the “reciprocal prices” aircraft industry by President Donald Trump.
Faury said on Tuesday that he thought the price is “the right thing to do”. But what continues to worry him most about the world economy is uncertainty, he said.
“We are long -term industries. We need visibility. We need predictability. And all this change is not predictable, and having to adapt to us all the time is to slow down,” said Faury.