Airbus achieves targets proving ramp-up readiness in 2016

Airbus’ commercial aircraft deliveries in 2016 were up for the 14th year in a row, reaching a new company record of 688 aircraft delivered to 82 customers, says the manufacturer. Deliveries were more than eight percent higher than the previous record of 635 set in 2015. These included 545 single aisle A320 Family of which 68 were A320neo, 66 A330s, 49  A350 XWBs and 28 A380s. Over 40 percent of single aisle deliveries were the larger A321 models. Airbus achieved 731 net orders from 51 customers of which eight are new. These included 607 singles aisle and 124 wide-body aircraft.