American, Spirit eye more Mobile deliveries to avoid Airbus tariffs
American Airlines Group and Spirit Airlines executives said Thursday they were working with Airbus to mitigate the impact of US tariffs on European-made aircraft, including having more planes delivered from Mobile, Alabama. Airbus' US plant is not subject to a 10% tariff recently announced by Washington following a long-running trade dispute. "We'll do everything we can to talk to Airbus to try to get them out of Mobile...instead of Hamburg," American CFO Derek Kerr said. American, one of the largest customers of the A320 family, expects 21 deliveries over the next 2 years, with 9 already scheduled out of Airbus' plant in Mobile. But 6 orders are due to come from Hamburg and the origin of another 6 have yet to be determined, Kerr said. <br/>
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American, Spirit eye more Mobile deliveries to avoid Airbus tariffs
American Airlines Group and Spirit Airlines executives said Thursday they were working with Airbus to mitigate the impact of US tariffs on European-made aircraft, including having more planes delivered from Mobile, Alabama. Airbus' US plant is not subject to a 10% tariff recently announced by Washington following a long-running trade dispute. "We'll do everything we can to talk to Airbus to try to get them out of Mobile...instead of Hamburg," American CFO Derek Kerr said. American, one of the largest customers of the A320 family, expects 21 deliveries over the next 2 years, with 9 already scheduled out of Airbus' plant in Mobile. But 6 orders are due to come from Hamburg and the origin of another 6 have yet to be determined, Kerr said. <br/>
