PARIS (Reuters) – Airbus on Monday confirmed it had delivered 55 aircraft in September, bringing the nine-month total to 488 jets.
Deliveries included the first A350 for Air India, part of a batch of six originally sold to Russia’s Aeroflot. Air India placed orders for 470 Airbus and Boeing jets earlier this year.
Deliveries were flat in September, but rose 23% in the third quarter compared with the same period last year, company data showed.
Reuters reported last week that Airbus had delivered around 55 aircraft in September, unchanged from the same month of 2022.
It targets 720 deliveries for the full year.
Airbus sold 23 jets in September, bringing the nine-month order tally to 1,280 jets or 1,241 after cancellations.
(Reporting by Tim Hepher; Editing by Sandra Maler)
