Airbus and Boeing are flying high once again at the Dubai Air Show
Post-Covid, the aircraft giants can boast record orders, but can they hit their delivery targets, asks Dominic O’Connell
The Dubai Air Show this week allowed the likes of Boeing, manufacturer of the 787 Dreamliner, above, to build on their success
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The Jean-Luc Lagardère Centre was meant to be the crowning glory of Airbus’s headquarters in Toulouse, a fittingly chic — and enormous — building for the construction of the world’s largest passenger aircraft, the A380 Superjumbo.
Airbus did not sell many A380s,with the last one rolling off the line two years ago. The building could have become a white elephant, but a flood of orders for Airbus’s other products have given it a new lease of life.
It has been pressed back into service as another assembly line — the eighth — for the best-selling A320 family of jets. Airbus plans to have ten assembly lines spread between France, Germany, the United States and China within three years, together cranking out 75 A320s a month.
