Airbus has delayed the entry-into-service date for the A350F, the freighter version of the A350 XWB. 

“We are in the execution of the program, we are in the development phase, we are starting the initialization of the product, so we are updating constantly the planning and what we have said today reflects a slight slippage of the overall planning,” said Xavier Tardy, the interim Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Airbus, during the company’s Q1 2023 results presentation. 

However, Tardy said that there would be no change “in the thinking of the program, just that the entry into service is now slightly pushed into the beginning of 2026”.