Airbus reported consolidated financial results for the nine months ended 30 September 2023.

The highlights are: 

488 commercial aircraft delivered in 9m 2023;

Revenues € 42.6 billion; EBIT Adjusted € 3.6 billion;

EBIT (reported) € 2.7 billion; EPS (reported) € 2.96;

Free cash flow before M&A and customer financing € 1.0 billion;

Charges on certain satellite development programmes;

Guidance maintained.

Gross commercial aircraft orders totalled 1,280 (9m 2022: 856 aircraft) with net orders of 1,241 aircraft after cancellations (9m 2022: 647 units). The order backlog amounted to 7,992 commercial airplanes at the end of September 2023.

Airbus Helicopters registered 191 net orders (9m 2022: 246 units) which were well spread across programmes. 

Airbus Defence and Space’s order intake by value was € 8.5 billion (9m 2022: € 8.0 billion), including the renewal of the in-service support contract for Germany’s A-400M fleet.

The integral version of the report is attached to this AVIONEWS.