Airbus industrie

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AIRBUS INDUSTRIE

The company's main civil aeroplane business is conducted through the French company Airbus S.A.S.,^[9] based in Blagnac, a suburb of Toulouse, with production and manufacturing facilities mostly in the European Union and the United Kingdom but also in China, the United States and Canada. Final assembly production is based in Toulouse, France; Hamburg, Germany; Seville, Spain; Tianjin, China; Mobile, United States; and Montreal, Canada.^[10] The company produces and markets the first commercially viable digital fly-by-wire airliner, the Airbus A320,^[11][12] and the world's largest passenger airliner, the A380. The 6,000th aircraft, an A380, was delivered to Emirates on 19 January 2010,^[13][14] while its 10,000th aircraft, an A350-900ULR, was delivered to Singapore Airlines on 14 October 2016.^[15][16][17] The 12,000th aircraft, an A220, was delivered to Delta Air Lines on 20 May 2019.^[18] By October 2016, the global Airbus fleet have performed more than 110 million flights, totalling over 215 billion kilometres and carrying 12 billion passengers.^[19] As of 2019, Airbus is the world's largest airliner manufacturer, surpassing Boeing for the first time since 2011,^[20] with which it is in intense competition.