The company's move to ramp up local production is 'absolutely essential' for company's plans to meet global demand, says an Airbus executive.
’ manufacturing facility in Mobile remains on track to create 1,000 new jobs, with jetliners coming off a new assembly line and hitting the sky starting in 2025, company officials said at a Wednesday celebration of progress on the project.
“We announced our expansion in May 2022, and we just felt today and this week was the right time,” he said. “We had the series of milestones including really breaking ground on our new final assembly line which is the corner piece of the expansion. It just felt like the right time as we put the big pieces in the ground.”
Airbus has said it wants to be delivering 75 of the jetliners per month by 2025 or 2026, in combined output from Mobile and three other sites. That’s a rate well beyond pre-pandemic levels, and it sounds like a lot – but Weber said it is “absolutely essential” that Airbus carry out its ambitious plans to ramp up production.
Daryl Taylor, senior vice president of commercial operations at Airbus USA, speaks during a celebration of a construction project for a second A320 final assembly line and continued site expansion on Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023, near the Airbus U.S. manufacturing facility in Mobile, Ala. Airbus plans to have the final assembly line project completed by mid-2025. .
Weber praised local leaders for making it all possible, with infrastructure work and other help. “I can say this is really an exceptional level of support that I experience here it is not the same everywhere,” Weber said. Part of that, he said, is for the city to continue investing in the quality of life the city offers Airbus employees.
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