Airbus quarterly deliveries up 7%
From Times Wire Services
Airbus said deliveries of commercial aircraft rose 7% in the first quarter from a year earlier as it worked off a record backlog of 3,687 planes. New orders in the period also rose.
Shipments reached 123 planes, including 102 of the A320 single-aisle series, 19 long-range planes and two A380 super-jumbo jets, the Toulouse, France-based company said. Airbus won new orders for 420 planes in the period compared with 134 a year earlier.
