Airbus shares dip as best-selling jet faces quality glitch

PARIS, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Shares in Airbus AIR.PA fell more than 1% on Friday after the European planemaker said it had discovered a quality flaw inside the fuselage of hundreds of best-selling A321neo jets.

Confirming a report in The Air Current, Airbus said the problem involved coatings applied to a structural component of the forward fuselage, but did not pose an immediate safety risk.

It did not immediately respond to a query on whether deliveries could be affected, but said a repair had been found.

Shares in the planemaker fell around 1.3% in early trading, lagging other CAC 40 blue-chip stocks.