Airbus wins December deliveries some breathing room after busy November

Airbus has left itself a slightly less challenging task on deliveries for the final weeks of the year than 2017’s record surge in December, but only after trimming the target with its most recent results, company data showed on Friday. Airbus said it had delivered 673 aircraft up to the end of November, leaving 109 aircraft still to be delivered in December in order to reach a core target of 782 deliveries - excluding the recently acquired Bombardier CSeries, now selling as the A220. Airbus in October said it maintained a target of 800 deliveries for 2018, but that these would now include 18 A220 models previously been excluded from the goal - a move equivalent to cutting the core Airbus target by 2% to 782 aircraft. Had it not done so, it would have had to repeat last year’s record feat of 127 deliveries in December, after taking into account a 20% rise in deliveries last month.<br/>