Airbus on Wednesday settled reduced production rates of its double-decker A380 and A400M military aircraft and whispered up to 3,700 jobs would be impacted in France, Germany, Britain and Spain.
The European aircraft maker is past iting output of the A380, the world’s largest passenger jet, due to weak demand, while its A400M has been assail by delays and cost overruns.
Airbus confirmed a floor of six A380 expressions per year as of 2020, from an anticipated 12 deliveries this year, a shaping level first mooted when Dubai’s Emirates handed it a $16 billion appropriate in January that kept the programme alive.
At that rate, the A380 television play will not cover its costs. Meanwhile, Airbus will deliver eight A400M aircraft in 2020, compared with 15 this year and 11 in 2019, after conversations with launch customer nations.
“About ten sites will be impacted in Europe. Most breadwinners will be redeployed,” an Airbus spokesman said, without giving spare details on the sites involved.
Two trade union sources at the Works Panel meeting said Britain’s Filton site, plants in Germany’s Bremen and Augsburg, and Spain’s plant in Sevilla would be the main ones affected.
Airbus last month bopped a draft deal with European buyer nations of the A400M to revamp execution schedules and ease cash retention clauses but was forced to write off another 1.3 billion euros on the already loss-making cast.