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Internal Airbus Video Warns of Brexit Complications

Fri Mar 02, 2018 7:33 pm

It seems the reality of Brexit (as opposed to the political stuff we can't discuss here) is impacting Airbus's purchasing patterns:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... xit-delays says:

“If we think there’s going to be a kind of a gumming up of the docks and the airports in March of next year and during a transition period then we’re going to have to start ordering additional components now,” Tom Williams, chief operating officer of Airbus’s commercial aircraft arm, said in an internal video posted to employees. “And that’s at a time when all of our suppliers are already pretty busy.”

Similar article:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brit ... SKCN1GE1QZ

So it's a dual-sourced story.

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