<div id="readability-page-1"><div>By Kimberley Kao Airbus wants to grow its footprint in Asia to meet strong demand in the region, a top company executive said. &#34;With presence all around the region, the key really is to help us to grow the footprint and to do more here,&#34; said Wouter van Wersch, executive vice president of Airbus's international business. &#34;Honestly, I'm very keen to grow Vietnam.&#34; Currently, the region accounts for nearly one-third of the company's global revenues and order backlog, the executive said at a recent group media briefing at the Singapore Airshow. According to the company's estimates, the Asia-Pacific region is expected to remain the world's fastest-growing air-travel market, requiring 19,560 new passenger aircraft over the next two decades and accounting for 46% of total global demand. Airbus's sourcing volume for equipment and parts from the region, including India and China, has grown sevenfold from 2011 to 2024, accounting for 7.9% of the company's global sourcing volume. This figure is likely to rise, van Wersch said. The company has also taken steps to grow &#34;strongly&#34; in India, making the country one of its key centers for engineering, he said. Overall, however, the supply chain has remained complicated since the pandemic, particularly due to engines and cabin seats, he said. &#34;We are having a lot of discussions with [engine manufacturers] to make sure that they also make the right investments...to answer the demand.&#34; In recent years, Airbus has been able to surge ahead of Boeing in market share amid the American plane maker's woes. However, Boeing appears to be regaining its footing as it takes steps to ramp up production of its jets. The Airbus executive is also taking China's homegrown plane maker Comac &#34;very seriously.&#34; &#34;I think they do realize that aeronautics is a complicated industry. It takes time to grow in terms of the capabilities to deliver aircraft,&#34; van Wersch said. &#34;[Comac] will be, for sure, a strong competitor going forward.&#34; Another challenge is aerospace being among the most exposed industries to the U.S. tariff crossfire. While it's something that creates &#34;distraction&#34; and increases costs for customers, Airbus is coping, van Wersch said. &#34;Of course we are a big believer in free trade, and tariffs is not something that is really helpful...being a global company, we are able to reallocate and make the right decisions in order to make sure that we limit the impact,&#34; he said. Write to Kimberley Kao at kimberley.kao@wsj.com (END) Dow Jones Newswires02-06-26 0454ET</div></div>

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空中客車集團旨在擴大其在亞洲的業務，以滿足日益增長的需求，目前該地區貢獻了其全球收入的近三分之一。預計亞太市場在未來 20 年內將需要 19,560 架新客機，佔全球需求的 46%。空中客車集團已顯著增加了來自該地區的採購，並專注於印度的增長。儘管面臨供應鏈挑戰以及來自波音和中國商飛的競爭，空中客車集團對其在亞洲的戰略仍持樂觀態度

空中客車集團希望在亞洲擴大其市場份額，以應對不斷增長的需求