Although it might not
admit it, Airbus is going for the kill.
As its main competitor in
the airplane manufacturing business, Boeing, continues to struggle, Airbus said
it will hire 400
more engineers.
The engineers are from
Britain and will be assigned to the companies production facility in Wales. They
will work on single-aisle airplanes. The Airbus plan is to increase output of
the A320 airplane from 48 a month to 75 or more monthly by 2026.
Jerome
Blandin, Airbus’s head of global wing production, Indicated that more bodies
are needed because the production plans will not be fully automated.
Scrutiny of Boeing has
intensified in the last half-year, but the company has been struggling for a
while. It has lost
more than $30 billion over the last five years. The company has had to slow
down its production and output and therefore has lost market share to Airbus.
Airbus added more than 1,000
employees in Britain last year.
Airbus CEO Tom Enders said: “We will see a level of improvement and
a better efficiency on the new production line in terms of how we put the
product together.”
In an effort to increase
production, Airbus has even utilized one plan for around the clock production
with three shifts.
There has been no further
comment from either airplane manufacturer.
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