Airbus to step up A320 plane production

Net income rose 21% to 3.6bn euros ($5bn; £3bn) in 2013, a year when Airbus delivered a record 626 planes. Revenues rose 5% to 59.3bn euros. Airbus said it expected to deliver a similar number of planes this year. It also announced it would increase production of its A320 jets to 46 planes a month from 42 by 2016. "Based on the healthy market outlook for our best-selling A320 family and following a comprehensive assessment of our supply chain's readiness to ramp-up, we are ready to go… (www.bbc.co.uk) Mais...