Airbus Doubles A320neo Capacity In “Lagardère”

Airbus officially inaugurated a second final assembly line for the A320neo family in the Jean-Luc Lagardère building in Toulouse on Monday. This follows after the building was reconfigured from A380 assembly to producing narrowbodies over three years ago.

The vast facility was constructed between 2002 and 2004 for the A380 double-decker, but stood empty after the 251^st and final aircraft was completed at the end of 2020. The building then stood empty, but Airbus

had announced in January 2020 that it would be reconfigured for the A321neo. Only a few weeks later, the plan was postponed after the pandemic broke out.