The move comes weeks similar to rival planemaker Boeing announced an usual 5.2 apiece cent charge increase in intensity.
Airbus and Boeing, which both maxim a hard recovery in organization carry on time, often retail planes by the side of a disregard to catalogue prices, but Airbus sales chief John Leahy thought on Monday with the aim of both revenues and marketplace pricing were humanizing.
Airbus had 52 apiece cent of the humankind marketplace in get tips and 52.5 apiece cent in deliveries in 2010, according to data released on Monday.
Airbus is squeezed financially by a weak cash for the reason that planes are sold in dollars and enter the EADS accounts in euros -- a currency in which it besides has a prohibitive proportion of its production overheads.
The overall charge hike includes an 8.4 apiece cent increase in intensity in the quantity of the Airbus A380, which brings the catalogue quantity of the world's chief airliner to $375 million.
Airbus thought this reflected the plane's scope to generate revenue in place of airlines, but the planemaker has besides been struggling to bring down unbudgeted production overheads in the ancient time.
Airbus besides long-established on Monday it was mulling a 10 apiece cent hike in production of its best-selling A320s, on top of existing campaign to raise output from 36 planes a month to 40.
A decision is due shortly on whether to boost production as prohibitive as 44 planes from 2012, senior executives thought.
The campaign, basic reported by Reuters carry on November, echo rising demand as airlines recover more quickly than likely from downturn. But they are besides seen as an ultra safeguard contrary to a weak cash alongside charge hikes.
Industry sources say a majority of Airbus's uneven overheads on the single-aisle dynasty production outline are in dollars, connotation senior output besides helps to tame currency belongings.
Airbus meanwhile traditional a would-be boost on Tuesday whilst Boeing announced a advance delay in basic escape of its 787 Dreamliner to the third quarter.
Delays in the futuristic, insubstantial Boeing jet maintain boosted sales of Airbus A330s, a prior generation of mid-sized jets whose file charge rises to $222 million.