Airbus has shelved plans to create a new assembly line in Toulouse, France, for its A321 airliner as the company wrestles with the coronavirus ...
PARIS/TOULOUSE: Airbus has shelved plans to create a new assembly line in Toulouse, France, for its A321 airliner as the company wrestles with the coronavirus crisis.
Airbus announced plans for the line in January when its problem was how to meet record demand for the jet from its site in Hamburg, Germany, which has struggled to accommodate the extra hours and complexity involved in making Airbus's most ambitious single-aisle jet.
"Our plans for an A321 line in Toulouse are paused, on hold," an Airbus spokesman confirmed."When we see rates going up again, we will reconnect to the plans." Chief Executive Guillaume Faury told reporters this week that Airbus would"hibernate" new investments to save cash. That leaves a question over what to do with its massive Lagardere A380 production plant in Toulouse, where production of the world's largest airliner is due to end in coming months, raising uncertainty over the role of hundreds of workers."Unlike Guillaume Faury who wants to halt non-essential investment, we think the arrival of a new A321 line in the Lagardere factory must be maintained," said CGT union official Xavier Petrachi.
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