Airbus aims to increase throughput in the Mirabel and Mobile final assembly lines to reach a monthly rate of 13 aircraft.
Credit: Jens Flottau/AW&ST
For years, Airbus has provided a standard answer to the question of whether it would launch a larger version of the A220: The launch is “a question of when, not if.” In other words, the company sees the rationale for building the aircraft but does not want to start on it just yet. Ten years after...
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