Christian Scherer, chief executive officer of Airbus' commercial aircraft business, discusses orders and competition from Boeing, the rival US planemaker whose sales have beaten those of its European rival this year. President Donald Trump has made aircraft orders a prominent part of his campaign to pare the US trade deficit.

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Christian Scherer, Chief Commercial Officer at Airbus, stated that while U.S. President Donald Trump's support has benefited Boeing's sales in certain regions, it has not hindered Airbus's overall global performance. Scherer emphasized that Airbus continues to have a strong order backlog and remains competitive by focusing on innovation and customer needs.

Scherer also addressed concerns regarding Rolls-Royce engines on Airbus aircraft, expressing satisfaction with their performance and highlighting an upcoming engine improvement program. He noted that the enhancements to the Trent 97K engine are expected to further improve reliability and efficiency, with customer feedback playing a key role in the development process.

Trump's Boeing support makes Airbus work harder: Scherer

Christian, is it getting harder to sell aeroplanes to this part of the world if you are Airbus? No, it isn't. We're very successful around the world, including in this region. It's true that our backlog extends so far forward that it is getting a little bit more difficult to convince customers to buy aeroplanes 10 years in advance, but no, I wouldn't differentiate this part of the world from any other. So President Trump, who has had a meaningful impact in terms of sales of your competitor in this region in the last year, is not having an effect at this point. It is having an effect on the number of orders that our competitor is benefiting from, but it doesn't change the path, the successful path of Airbus selling aeroplanes around the world. Do you have to work harder, though, because of that factor? Do you have to be more competitive? Do you have to be more price competitive, more efficient, whatever it is, to overcome that? That's an interesting point. What I'm telling myself and my colleagues is, well, in the face of these forces, we just have to continue to be better, to be more innovative, to respond to our customers' needs, and yeah, but that's a healthy thing. But he is making a difference. In terms of volume. Yeah, in terms of sales. In terms of volumes, yes, but it does not change the fact that Airbus is nearing 9,000 aircraft on backlog and is serving our customers very, very well, and we're quite successful in the market. Is he the biggest problem, or are you having, actually, is your Achilles' heel Rolls-Royce engines at the moment in this region? Your aircraft might be good, but are the Rolls-Royce engines holding you back? I wouldn't call it an Achilles' heel, quite on the contrary. We're very, very happy with the engines that equip our aircraft, be it the Trent 7,000 on the 330, and then the Trent 84K and 97K, as we refer to them, on the A350. Very, very good engines. We have, indeed, an engine improvement program that is coming live now, very, very soon, on the 97K that's going to make the engine even better in the challenging environment, for example, in the medium. Enough to make Tim Clark over at Emirates want to buy the airplane? Well, that's a question you have to address to Tim, but we've listened to him, to other customers. The engine is being improved, and Rolls-Royce is about to verify the testing on the engine. We're very hopeful it'll be a great engine. It already is around the world. It will be for this region.

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