The Airbus logo is shown outside the Airbus plant in Saint-Nazaire, France, November 7, 2023.
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Airbus He could give advantage to their customers who are not in the US if Tariffs disrupt the import of the European plan, the Guillaume Faury CEO said on Thursday.
“We have great demand from the rest of the world, so [if] We are facing very significant difficulties in the US, we can also adapt by bringing delivery to other customers who are very eager to get planes, “Faury Charlotte Reed said in a CNBC, in an interview that discussed the company The results of a year -round.
“These tariffs are found, and we don’t know what it will be, [and]If and if we had tariffs, what would be influenced. So we stand ready to adapt accordingly, “Faury said, referring to US President Donald Trump wide tariff threats who have already been Increased against China.
Faury, however, emphasized that in recent years, Airbus has made moves not only to buy more from the United States for sale a significant number of aircraft and helicopters in the US, but also locally bases part of its production.
These include a large output place in Mobile, Alabama, as well as two final prefabricated lines for the A220 and A320 family nozzles, with another US line under construction for the construction of the A320 and A321 for the domestic market.
Many large US carriers are Airbus customers, including American Airlines,, Delta,, United and Jetblue.
“So we have a lot of potential flexibility,” Faury said in a relationship Potentially imposing dutieswhose details remain uncertain.
“The lower lime, we believe in this industry – this is a large ecosystem in North America with a lot of interdependence – the tariffs would hurt both sides. I hope, I believe, we will not significantly affect the tariffs,” Faury said.
The aim of the European Plan for about 820 aircraft delivery in 2025 was published “despite insecurities, in order to clarify what we think we can provide absent tariffs this year,” Faury said.
In the meantime, Airbus has remained a nauseous many problems with a supply chain that limits its ability to increase production and work through a backlog of more than 8,000 jets, Faury told CNBC.
His comments come after the company reported on Thursday about an annual revenue of 6%, but an 8% drop in customized operating profit to 5.35 billion euros (5.59 billion USD) during 2024.
Profit on the defense and space unit of the company has switched to a loss of EUR 656 million throughout the year.
Faury told CNBC that the space is “the area we are suffering”, in the midst of a competition of players like Elon Musk Spacex past investments in the technologies that have proven to be difficult.
“We were underestimating the risk compared to reality,” Faury said, adding that the company restructured the unit and worked to resolve the existing questions.
Despite the challenges, the Airbus annual results served to highlight his strength over his crisis affected by the American rival Boeingwho reported on an annual loss of $ 11.83 billion for 2024.
