The group is expanding its lead over US competitor Boeing

Frankfort, Paris At the end of November, the Airbus board of directors met in a Bavarian restaurant at Munich Airport. Only CEO Guillaume Faury was missing, he accompanied the French President on a trip to the United States. At Haxen and Hellem, the management team of the European aircraft manufacturer looked to the future with optimism.

“Dark clouds” such as inflation or high energy prices have had no impact on business so far, said sales manager Christian Scherer. Civil aviation is recovering from the corona shock and, with the exception of China, is again around 80 percent of the level before the pandemic.

The manager was relaxed about the fact that arch-rival Boeing does not want to bring any new passenger aircraft onto the market by the middle of the next decade. That was “no surprise” after all, Boeing had accumulated a “huge mountain of debt,” said Scherer.