Aircraft
Airbus Claims Confidence in its Mid-market Coverage
The European airframer maintains its 2019 delivery target and describes the current environment as “quite positive.”

Airbus appears confident it has nothing to fear from Boeing’s plans to develop a new midsize airplane (NMA), insisting it already offers the most flexible and economical solution on the market. “We have a very successful re-engined A320/A321, a narrowbody with amazing economics and a widebody range, and the A330 program is now re-engined as well,” said Airbus chief commercial officer Christian Scherer during Tuesday’s pre-Paris Air Show briefings in Toulouse. “So we have a left-hook, right-hook approach to the NMA.”