Reuters
• Tim Hepher
Airbus plans to decide “sooner rather than later” whether to increase production capacity for its A350 wide-body, commercial CEO Lars Wagner said. The decision is one of three near-term calls facing the planemaker as competition with Boeing intensifies.
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