Airbus Helicopters secured 18,500 flight hours of new military and civil helicopter orders in 2025, representing an 18.9% increase over the prior year. This expansion was driven largely by renewed defense budgets across France, Germany and Italy, which collectively accounted for 60% of the order book. Deliveries rose to 380 units, up from 320 in 2024, reflecting ramped-up production at the Marignane facility and faster certification of the latest H145M and H225M variants. Management highlighted that the book-to-bill ratio improved to 1.05, underscoring sustained demand and successful negotiations on multi-year framework agreements with key European defense ministries.

In 2025 Airbus recorded 1,000 gross commercial aircraft orders, translating into 889 net orders after cancellations and conversions—a 7.6% gain in unit terms and a 14% increase in contract value year-over-year. Deliveries reached 793 jets, meeting the company’s revised target but falling short of the initial goal of 820. Supply chain bottlenecks in fuselage panels and Pratt & Whitney A320 neo-family engines delayed completion of 27 narrow-body airliners. Despite robust backlog growth to 8,300 aircraft, the delivery shortfall highlights ongoing challenges in aligning component supply with final assembly throughput.

Chief Executive Guillaume Faury cautioned that escalating trade tensions between the U.S. and China have inflicted “significant collateral damage” on logistics and finance, citing last year’s imposition of U.S. tariffs and subsequent Chinese export curbs on rare earths. He noted that restrictions on engine exports disrupted final assembly of A320 jets in Tianjin, while recalls related to software and fuselage panels underscored the need for tighter quality controls. Faury emphasized a strategic pivot toward rigorous cost-management and supply chain resilience, aiming to achieve profitable growth in the second half of the decade and prepare for the next-generation A320 successor program expected to enter service in the latter 2030s.