PARIS — Airbus said on Wednesday it had the capacity to push the production of its A350 planes above its targeted level of 10 aircraft a month, as its main rival Boeing also prepares to step up some of its own production output. "We are sticking by our target to increase A350 production to 10 per month by the end of 2018 and we have the industrial capacity to go higher," said an Airbus spokesman. He was speaking after aerospace publication Leeham News said Airbus was preparing to push up the output of its new wide-body jet to 13 a month, perhaps by as early as 2019. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyThe spokesman for Airbus declined to comment on when, or by how much, Airbus could increase the production.

Source: New York Times October 04, 2017 08:37 UTC