Airbus keeps top spot in coronavirus-blighted jet market
Reuters/Paris Filed on January 9, 2021
An Airbus A330-900 plane model is dispalyed at the Beijing International Aviation Expo in Beijing. Airbus said it had delivered 566 aircraft in 2020, exceeding estimates earlier in the year when the coronavirus crisis led to a lockdown of major travel markets. AFP
Deliveries fell by 34% from a record posted a year earlier, when travel demand was riding high on the increasing mobility of consumers in fast-growing markets across Asia
Europe’s Airbus posted stronger-than-expected deliveries of 566 jets in 2020, remaining the world’s largest planemaker as a year of pandemic-induced upheaval for air travel coincided with a grounding crisis at U.S. rival Boeing.