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Airbus Cuts Delivery Forecast on A321 ACF ‘Complexities’
The European airframer expects to deliver half of all ACFs produced this year in the fourth quarter.
Airbus's Hamburg plant builds most of the company's A321s, including all the heads of version A321 ACF examples. (Photo: Airbus)
Airbus's Hamburg plant builds most of the company's A321s, including all the heads of version A321 ACF examples. (Photo: Airbus)

Continuing “challenges” associated with the industrialization and production acceleration of the Airbus Cabin Flex (ACF) version of the A321LR in Hamburg have prompted Airbus to lower its delivery forecast for this year to 860 airplanes from a previous projection of between 880 and 890, company executives said Wednesday. Speaking during Airbus’s earnings call for the first nine months of 2019, CEO Guillaume Faury explained that the complexity involving the ACF’s cabin configuration the company must “digest” would persist until the end of 2020, by which time it expects to have delivered all of the model’s heads of version airplanes. Notwithstanding the continuing struggles, the situation has begun to improve, he reported, as the company plans to deliver in the fourth quarter roughly half of the near 100 ACFs targeted for shipment this year.


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