Airbus delivered 51 aircraft in May, a month absent of order activity ahead of the Paris air show in June.
The airframer handed over three A350-900s and three A330-900s, plus 40 A320neo-family jets and five A220s.
Overall deliveries for the first five months of this year reached 243, still lagging the 256 achieved at the same point in 2024.
Airbus’s net orders remained static at 215. The airframer neither gained nor lost orders during the month.
Saab’s hoped-for finalisation later this year of a deal to supply the Colombian air force with Gripen E/Fs is also likely to represent good news for Embraer: the airframer’s industrial partner on the fighter programme.
Boeing padded its backlog in May with orders for 303 aircraft, while also accelerating 737 production to 38 jets monthly, the fastest pace permitted by the Federal Aviation Administration.
Poland has deferred an acquisition of 32 locally built Sikorsky S-70i Black Hawk utility helicopters, having shifted its procurement priorities.
The collapse of Universal Hydrogen – and Airbus pushing back work on its ZEROe concept – have seen hydrogen’s potential as a fuel source move to the fringes of aviation’s 2050 net-zero target.
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