FARNBOROUGH, England—Airbus expects delays in engine supplies that have been holding back aircraft deliveries to peak at mid-year, Chief Executive Guillaume Faury was reported on Monday as saying.
Airbus has been forced to build some narrowbody A320neo-family jets without engines in order to keep assembly lines running, mirroring a smaller scale disruption seen in 2017 when Airbus was forced to build dozens of engine-less airframes nicknamed “gliders,” while waiting for powerplants to arrive.
