PARIS, April 3 (Reuters) - Airbus delivered 142

aircraft in the first quarter, up 12% from the same period last

year, industry sources said.

Airbus declined to comment.

The tally restored deliveries to the same level seen in the

first quarter of 2022, following a slow start to 2023, but fell

about half a dozen planes short of the European planemaker's

initial expectations for the quarter, the sources said.

Airbus does not publish quarterly delivery targets but has

said it is targeting 800 deliveries for 2024.

Some deliveries of wide-body jets are being delayed by a

shortage of seats, while Airbus has also notified customers of

delays in deliveries to the narrow-body A321.

Airbus nonetheless remains the dominant supplier of

workhorse narrow-body jets after regulators capped output of the

competing Boeing 737 following a door-plug blowout.

Airbus is due to give a delivery update on April 9.