Fabrice Brégier, chief operating officer at Airbus, told British politicians last month that his company’s A400M military transport aircraft remained on target for its scheduled first delivery at the end of 2009.
The comments were designed to counter the persistent unease among defence ministries that this long-running industrial saga is again threatened by delays, particularly in light of the highly public production problems at Airbus, the jet maker owned by Franco-German defence group EADS.
