2024 Review – Airbus Top Ten Customers

2024 is a year many aviation leaders are pleased to see shrinking in the rearview mirror and another year moving away from the ongoing pandemic crisis and its lingering impacts.  Demand for new aircraft remains firm, with backlogs growing.  However, the demand for new aircraft and the supply stay out of sync.

This post discusses the past year from Airbus’s perspective. Airbus has comfortably become the industry’s leading OEM.  This heft comes with benefits (the supply chain wants to be a part of Airbus’s success) and downsides (you can only go down from the top).