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Airbus CEO: engines biggest supply constraint as company grapples with wider supply‑chain challenges

Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury told a World Governments Summit panel in Dubai that supply chains remain a major challenge for the company, with engines the most difficult components to source recently. He said the bottleneck adds near‑term risk to production throughput and delivery schedules.

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Engines are the immediate choke point cited by Airbus leadership, raising AOG risk and limiting final‑assembly throughput — a dynamic that has already cut A350 handovers and slowed completions (source:427b6e77-bba4-4828-8121-d8b418ec44f3).
Short supplies of powerplants and components push up aftermarket prices and constrain freighter and conversion programmes, intensifying competition for scarce inventory (source:6dc6f61a-95ec-40ee-8830-8e0af1fc95e7).
Faury’s comments reinforce earlier industry calls for more industrial investment and policy action to shore up manufacturing, MRO and logistics capacity if production ramps and backlogs are to be sustained (source:1af9210b-f8f6-42f1-987c-97a0ffeba33e).

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