By Tim Hepher

PARIS (Reuters) -Airbus has seen a marked improvement in confidence and performance from its suppliers, all of whom are ready to support the company’s target of increasing deliveries by 7% to some 820 jets this year, a senior company official said on Monday.

The European planemaker is also on its way towards a longer-term goal of increasing underlying output of narrow-body jets to 75 a month in 2027, Florent Massou dit Labaquere, executive vice-president for operations, told reporters.

Massou was speaking as the world’s largest planemaker prepared to inaugurate a second U.S. assembly line for A320neo-family jets in Mobile, Alabama, later on Monday. Airbus also plans a similar expansion in China in coming weeks.

He said the expanded network of 10 assembly lines would be su

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