Airbus, which has overtaken US rival Boeing to become the world's largest jetmaker following a 20-month safety grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX, predicted flat 2021 deliveries and a core operating profit of 2 billion euros ($2.4 billion).
CAE, which produces flight simulators for planemakers Boeing Co and Airbus, however, expects to see an uptick in training contracts as more people get vaccinated and resume air travel.
The world's largest civil aviation training specialist said its net income attributable to shareholders fell to C$48.8 million ($38.29 million).
Next week's briefing by Airbus Chief Executive Guillaume Faury for the heads of several suppliers is expected to set the manufacturing tone for the coming year.
It looks like the rate of 47 is slipping to the right.
Using the Chinese-made ARJ-21, the nation's main aircraft maker seeks to bolster the utilisation of domestically produced planes, in an effort to compete with international aviation behemoths such as Airbus and Boeing.
China seeks to leverage the nation's massive aviation network and growing domestic market to gain a larger chunk of the global aviation services industry.
Faury said Airbus would maintain its reduced output of 40 A320-family jets a month into early 2021, but did not address the timing or scale of any output increase.
Britain said on Tuesday it would suspend the tariffs on Jan. 1
Airbus played down the move, saying the company's goal remains "to find a negotiated settlement of this long-standing dispute to avoid lose-lose tariffs."
It is among the first visible moves by aerospace firms to prepare for a possible bounce back from the pandemic and comes days after a major buyer, Wizz Air, predicted a quick rebound for the strongest budget carriers.
The state-owned carrier, Russia's largest by far, took delivery in March of the first of 11 of the widebody passenger aircraft it had ordered from the European aerospace giant.