Airbus Helicopters ramps up deliveries, pledges UK investment |
LONDON, 25 January (Reuters) – Airbus Helicopters ( AIR.PA ) on Wednesday reported a 2% rise in deliveries last year to 344 units and a net total of 362 orders, cementing its position as the world’s biggest commercial helicopter maker.
Cancellation before being made, the Airbus subsidiary won 374 total orders last year.
Rivals include Textron ( TXT.N ) subsidiary Bell and Airbus Helicopters, which owns AgustaWestland, part of Italy’s Leonardo ( LDOF.MI ), global civil and parapublic – the police and the police said it provided 52% of government-owned or managed services. weather ambulances – market in 2022.
Airbus Helicopters has also confirmed that the flight hours of its helicopter fleet have returned to pre-COVID 2019 levels.
Flight hours drive service revenue, which accounts for almost half of Airbus Helicopters’ sales.
The demand for helicopters provided by public services is substantial weather way suffered less from COVID-19 than its industry.
Airbus Helicopters Chief Executive Bruno Even told Reuters in September that flight hours had reached pre-Covid levels and that the number of second-hand helicopters available – a drag on new sales – was falling.
In a statement on Wednesday, it even warned of a “fragile supply chain”.
Military On the other hand, Airbus Helicopters, Britain of the H175 helicopter if it wins the competition to equip its army military For his version, Broughton said that Wales proposed an assembly-line design.
BritainAirbus’ European rival Leonardo ( LDOF.MI ) along with Puma and others military fleet of models substitute plans to buy up to 44 medium-sized helicopters.
Leonardo dominates the UK military market, while Airbus has the largest number of commercial and emergency helicopters.
On Tuesday, Airbus Chief Executive Guillaume Faury appeared at the company’s London site, where he said the Broughton facility — a World War II bomber factory where Airbus has built wings for jets for decades — will be the sole assembly site for the H175M. If Airbus wins the bid, the world market.
Reporting by Tim Hefer Editing by Tomasz Janowski
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2023-01-25 15:44:37
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