Premium #340 – NEO Deliveries Improving, but Continue to Fall Short of Plan

The A320NEO family is the best selling new generation narrow body aircraft available on the market today. However, due to supply chain difficulties, caused by continuing issues with deliveries of the Pratt & Whitney PW1100G engine, the company has been forced to alter its plans substantially.  NEO Deliveries in 2017 are shown in the chart below, and illustrate how far Airbus is off its goals from 2012 and even what they called for at 2016’s Innovation Days.  Note that the planned production rate of 60 is the top line of the chart, and the gap has remained substantial so far this year.