The company now has a backlog of 8,585 jets that have been ordered but not yet manufactured.
To give an idea of the scale of that queue, last year Airbus made and delivered 735 planes.
Order one of the sparkling new A321 fuel efficient jets for £90m, and you will have to wait until 2031 at least to fly it.
“We are focussing our efforts on those bottlenecks,” said Mr Faury.
While the sales teams are in the spotlight this week, it is Airbus engineers and production managers facing the biggest challenges. They are trying to speed up manufacturing of these hugely complex aircraft, relying on hundreds of specialist suppliers who face their own problems.
“We are sending our own people,” said Mr Faury.
“Trying to provide help, anticipate the situation. And we have increased our buffer stocks to react to a crisis in the supply chain.”
On the last day of the show, some aviation executives showed their patience, allowing Airbus to end on a high.
Low-cost Saudi airline, ‘flynas’, signed a provisional deal to buy 90 new aircraft, worth around $12bn.
The man buying the planes, flynas CEO Bander Almohanna, explained that the 75 A320neo aircraft he had just ordered had “exceptional efficiency”, which is vital for a low cost airline.
The other 15 planes are the long haul A330neo, which the airline says will “support our growth plans and Saudi Arabia’s pilgrim program.”
In Filton, just north of Bristol, around 4,000 people work for Airbus and its partner GKN, designing and making wings.
They will have cheered the news that Airbus finally won the annual tussle with their big rival Boeing, selling 21 more aircraft than the Americans.
But it also means that in four days at Farnborough, another 139 planes have been added to their ‘to do’ list.
