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Airbus SE said it would target higher dividend payments, raising the upper range of its payout to shareholders, as earnings remain resilient despite uncertainty from tariffs and supply chain snags that have slowed down deliveries of its aircraft to customers.

The pan-European planemaking and defense giant reiterated its 2025 guidance in a statement Wednesday. Airbus also said it would propose a new policy boosting its dividend ratio to 30-50%, from 30-40%, later in the day during a business update for investors and analysts.

Airbus this week kicked off the Paris Air Show with as much as $17 billion in orders from Saudi Arabian customers and a major purchase from Poland. The world’s largest planemaker set a goal of handing over 820 aircraft this year, an increase from 2024, but below the pre-Covid peak of 863 planes in 2019.