Dec 3 (Reuters) – Airbus lowered its commercial aircraft delivery target to around 790 aircraft for 2025 on Wednesday due to a supplier quality issue impacting fuselage panels on its A320 family of jets.

The world’s largest planemaker had previously expected to deliver around 820 commercial aircraft this year. The popular A320 overtook the Boeing 737 in October as the most-delivered model in history.

Airbus engineers have found defects on a wider set of A320 fuselage panels as they prepare to inspect hundreds of jets, a presentation to airlines seen by Reuters showed. Around 40% of the affected jets are still in assembly lines.

The affected parts have the wrong thickness following a process of stretching and milling carried out by Seville-based Sofitec Aero, the presentation showed.

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