Tianjin to deliver A330s in 2017

Airbus SAS expects its new China A330 completion center to deliver a jet per month starting in 2017, rising to two per month in the following two years, the firm's China head said on Tuesday.

Airbus China President Eric Chen was speaking to media in Beijing ahead of a groundbreaking ceremony for the center in Tianjin.

Airbus said it expects China's aviation market, the world's second-largest, to come out relatively unscathed from the country's economic slowdown and provide demand for 5,400 new airplanes over the next 20 years.