Airbus cut its annual commercial aircraft delivery target for this year after issues with its best-selling A320 narrow-body model.
The European plane maker expects to hand over 790 aircraft to airline customers this year, it said in a statement on Wednesday. This is down from an earlier target of 820 planes.
The delivery cuts are “in light of recent supplier quality issue on fuselage panels” impacting the delivery flow of its A320 family of aircraft, the world's biggest plane maker said.
On Monday, Airbus said it identified a quality problem in metal panels on some of its A320 jets, days after it found a software glitch that affected about 6,000 jets worldwide.
The quality issue potentially affects a limited number of A320 metal panels.
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