Airbus Sees Longer Aerospace Steel Lead Times, Supply Chain Challenges

Airbus landing gear
Credit: Airbus
LE BOURGET—Airbus is seeing new materials shortages emerge in the aerospace supply chain as other issues that have dominated in recent months begin to settle down. “There are new difficulties with raw materials, particularly aerospace steel,” Chief Operating Officer Alberto Gutierrez tells ShowNews...
Jens Flottau

Based in Frankfurt, Germany, Jens is executive editor and leads Aviation Week Network’s global team of journalists covering commercial aviation.

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