For Airbus, IndiGo and Air India are now among the top three airline customers globally with the maximum backlog or aircraft yet to be delivered, according to the aerospace major’s EVP (sales, commercial aircraft) Mr Benoit de Saint-Exupery. It has to deliver 916 and 344 aircraft, the majority of which are narrow body, to IndiGo and AI, respectively. Malaysia-based AirAsia Group, which once used to run a JV airline in India with the Tatas, is in the second spot at 393 planes. Mr Benoit said that there were signs of stability in the supply chain. The company is now back to the pre-Covid level of producing 60 A320 family of single-aisle planes every month and hopes to increase this number to 75 by 2027. It has the orders and is ramping up production, as per a report.
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