Fast Facts

Airbus's orders and deliveries in 2010 were the following:



Airbus has different production centers spoiled all over the world.
Manufacturing, production and sub-assembly of parts for Airbus aircraft is distributed around 12 sites in Europe, with final assembly in Toulouse and Hamburg.
Those centers focused on engineering design, sales and support are stablsished in North America; and sales and customer support centres in Japan and China.

Airbus has a joint engineering centre in Russia with Kaskol.
In this map we can have a quick view of how Airbus is ditributed worldwide.



Diversity is a key factor for the success of Airbus.

With its global presence growing, Airbus is now bigger internationally than it ever has been.

85 different nationalities are represented among its 52,000 employees.

Beeing one of the subsidiaries of EADS, Airbus is the one giving more revenues as we can see in the chart above.

This chart shows the revenue contribution of each subsidiary and the total revenue amount of EADS.
Airbus is far away of the other ones.

Enterprise's Introduction

The company is known for producing and marketing the first commercially viable fly-by-wire airliner and the world's largest airliner, the A380.

WHAT?
Airbus,a European aerospace company, is an aircraft that manufactures subsidiary of EADS (European Aeronautic Defence and Space) and was founded in 1970. Based in Blagnac, Airbus has a significant activity across Europe and has become a world wide known company, that produces around half of the world's jet airliners.


HOW?
The consolidation of European defence and aerospace companies in the 21st century made the establishment of a simplified joint stock company in 2001 , owned by EADS (80%) and BAE (British Aerospace) Systems (20%), possible.


WHO?
The founding father of Airbus Industrie was Henri Ziegler. He was the inspiration behind the Airbus A300B and the subsequent formation of the consortium in 1970. He was Airbus' first managing director until 1975.
He died at the age of 92 in 1998. 


WHERE?
Airbus employs around 57,000 people in four European Union countries:
- Germany
-France
-United Kingdom
-Spain.


Airbus has subsidiaries in the United States, Japan, China and India.
Final assembly production is established in Toulouse (France), Hamburg (Germany), Seville (Spain) and, since 2009, Tianjin (China).