By Tim Hepher PARIS, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Airbus AIR.PA delive
By Tim Hepher
PARIS, Jan 5 (Reuters) – Airbus AIR.PA delivered greater than 560 plane in 2020, in response to monitoring knowledge and airline trade sources, placing it on the right track to beat arch-rival Boeing BA.N to be the world’s largest planemaker for a second consecutive yr.
The European aerospace group reached a casual goal of 560 handovers, based mostly on numbers that stay topic to auditing, the sources added.
Airbus, which is anticipated to announce 2020 orders and deliveries within the coming days, declined to remark forward of their formal publication.
Complete Airbus deliveries are anticipated to have fallen by a few third this yr, as a result of impression of the COVID-19 pandemic on air journey and airways.
However the European producer has an insurmountable lead over Boeing, which had delivered 118 planes between the beginning of 2020 and the top of November, with the 737 MAX grounded through the interval.
(Reporting by Tim Hepher; Writing by Laurence Frost; Modifying by Sudip Kar-Gupta)
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