Airbus has opened a new A320 Family final assembly line in Toulouse, adding A321-capable capacity inside the former A380 Lagardère site.
The line is built for Airbus’s rate-75 push, giving the narrow-body programme more industrial headroom as backlog remains weighted toward the A321neo. It also reflects a broader clean-sheet factory reset: digital production control, automated logistics, and lightweight robotics to tighten flow and throughput.
The move gives Airbus more flexibility across its single-aisle network. The next test is whether the Toulouse site can translate that added capacity into steadier delivery performance.