PARIS, July 29 (Reuters) – Airbus maintained financial and industrial forecasts as it unveiled stronger-than-expected second-quarter revenues and core profits on Wednesday, lifted by higher jetliner deliveries and gains in defence.
The world’s largest planemaker said its quarterly adjusted operating profit rose 54% to 2.43 billion euros as revenues gained 28% to 20.53 billion euros, led by a surge in commercial aircraft deliveries following a slow start to the year.
Analysts were on average expecting the widely watched profit figure to come in at 2.19 billion euros on revenues of 20.25 billion.
(Reporting by Tim Hepher, Florence Loeve)
