Airbus has cut its annual delivery target for 2025 to around 790 commercial jets, down from its initial projection of 820 jet deliveries.
The European OEM said the update was based on a "recent supplier quality issue on fuselage panels impacting its A320 family delivery”.
For the first 10 months of the year, Airbus has delivered 585 jets, including 78 deliveries in October 2025.
With its initial target, the company needed to deliver around 235 jets in the remaining two months of the year. With its revised target, Airbus will need to deliver around 205 aircraft before the end of 2025.
Last year, Airbus delivered 84 aircraft in November and 123 in December, totalling 207 jets. Airbus' 2024 delivery target was around 770 aircraft, which it almost met with 766 delivered. However, this target was cut during the summer of last year, down from 800 jets.
Airbus will disclose its November deliveries this Friday (December 5).
Late on Friday last week, Airbus completed an examination of an incident that took place in late October, when a JetBlue flight suffered a sudden altitude drop after a flight control issue, injuring at least 15 people.
The company revealed that intense solar radiation had prompted the incident, warning that it could corrupt data that is critical to the function of flight controls on its A320 family.
This prompted a scramble to implement a software update on certain A320 aircraft causing, disruption over the weekend.
Airbus said on Monday that the “vast majority” of recalled 6,000 A320 aircraft have been updated.
The challenges have not weighed on its results, though, with Airbus maintaining its full year adjusted EBIT guidance of around €7bn, and free cash flow before customer financing of around €4.5bn. This guidance was provided in its nine-month 2025 update.