Airbus prepares to open second A320neo line in Mobile, sticks to A220 production ramp goal

Airbus aims for its second A320neo final assembly line in Mobile to be operating in the third quarter of this year and is sticking to a goal of producing 14 A220s monthly by 2026 despite stubborn supply constraints. The company is “getting the third line ramped up” and expects it will “be ready in the… third quarter of this year”, Robin Hayes, CE of Airbus in America told FlightGlobal on 8 April. Airbus opened its Mobile facility with a single A320 assembly line ten years ago and opened an A220 line in Mobile in 2020, supplementing A220 production in Mirabel, Canada. In 2022, the company revealed plans to construct a second A320neo-family line in Mobile, at the time aiming to have that line operating in the second quarter of 2025. Hayes, speaking at the MRO Americas conference in Atlanta, also said Airbus still aims to reach a goal of producing, at its Mirabel and Mobile sites, a combined 14 A220s in 2026. “We are on course for…getting up to that rate,” he says. But Airbus has a long way to go. It delivered just 17 A220s in the first three months of 2025 and only 75 of the jets in 2024. The manufacturer has been working to hike production amid a steady stream of supply chain difficulties that arose during the Covid-19 pandemic and that continue to hinder output.<br/>