Airbus is having trouble kicking Boeing while it's down

Airbus is struggling to take full advantage of the mess embroiling Boeing, its biggest rival. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Christian Scherer, the head of the French planemaker’s commercial airliner division, bemoaned his company’s difficulties in overcoming supplier bottlenecks to pump out jets more quickly. “I thought we were going to be in a better place,” he told the newspaper. “There’s the whole future to prepare, but now there’s also the present to manage much more than we thought.” Though Boeing stock is down more than 35%...