By David Kaminski-Morrow2021-05-20T09:49:00+01:00 Even if the home-turf showcase of the Paris air show had not joined the long list of exhibition casualties, Airbus might have struggled to scrape together sufficient material around which to build the sort of upbeat media event schedule to which it has become accustomed. Over the year since March 2020, the point at which the pandemic started to throttle the global air transport system, Airbus took orders for just 66 aircraft – only three of which were widebodies: two of them A330s for military tanker conversion. Source: Airbus A320neo-family output will climb to 43 per month in the third quarter of this year