Airbus shares dip as best-selling jet faces quality glitch
Airbus shares fell more than 1% after the planemaker said it found a quality flaw in the fuselage of hundreds of A321neo jets. The flaw does not pose an immediate safety risk, and Airbus said it had found a repair.
1. Fuselage flaw identified
Airbus said coatings applied to a structural component of the A321neo’s forward fuselage had a quality flaw affecting hundreds of jets. The company said the issue posed no immediate safety risk and that it had found a repair, but did not immediately say whether deliveries could be affected. Shares fell around 1.3% in early trading.
