Airbus

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Airbus SAS

Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Aerospace
Founded	1970 (as Airbus Industrie) 2001 (Airbus as SAS)
Headquarters	Toulouse , France
Key people	Fabrice Brégier (Chief Executive Officer) Guenter Butschek (Chief Operating Officer)
Products	Commercial airliners (list)
Revenue	€33.10 billion (FY 2011)[1]
Operating income	4,253,000,000 Euro (2017)
Net income	€1.597 billion (FY 2008)
Total assets	111,130,000,000 Euro (2016)
Number of employees	55,000[2]
Parent	EADS
Subsidiaries	Airbus Military
Website	www.airbus.com

Airbus SE (English pronunciation: /ˈɛərbʌs/, French: [ɛʁbys] (listen), German: [ˈɛːɐ̯bʊs] (listen), Spanish: [airˈβus]) is a company which makes aircraft. It is owned by EADS, a European aerospace company. Airbus has its headquarters in Blagnac, France.^[3][4] Airbus Office in Toulouse 1, Rond Point Maurice Bellonte 31707 Blagnac Cedex France"

Airbus began as a consortium (a group) of aircraft makers called Airbus Industrie. Later, in 2001, it became a joint-stock company. It was owned by EADS (80%) and BAE Systems (20%). BAE sold its part of the company to EADS on 13 October 2006, so EADS now completely owns the company.

Around 55,000 people work for Airbus^[2] in sixteen places in four European countries: France, Germany, the United Kingdom and Spain. The final part of Airbus aircraft making is done in Toulouse, France; Hamburg, Germany; Seville, Spain; and, since 2009, Tianjin, China.^[5]

Airbus makes and sells the first digital fly-by-wire airliner, the Airbus A320.^[6] Airbus also makes the biggest airliner in the world, the Airbus A380.

In 2015 Airbus launched an accelerator program to infuse startup and intrapreneurial innovations called Airbus BizLab.^[7]

1. ↑ "Annual Results 2011" (PDF). EADS. 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 June 2012. Retrieved 11 June 2012.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} "Airbus – Company – People & Culture". Airbus. Archived from the original on 27 May 2013. Retrieved 22 November 2011.
3. ↑ "Airbus A380 lands after making aviation history Archived 2012-03-14 at the Wayback Machine." USA Today. 27 April 2005. Updated 28 April 2005. Retrieved on 12 February 2010.
4. ↑ "Contacts Archived 2012-03-22 at the Wayback Machine." Airbus. Retrieved on 28 November 2011. "Airbus Headquarters in Leiden 30, Mendelweg 2333 CS The Netherlands"
5. ↑ "First Airbus final assembly line outside Europe inaugurated in Tianjin, China". Airbus. 28 September 2008. Archived from the original on 29 May 2017. Retrieved 25 March 2012.
6. ↑ Beatson, Jim (2 April 1989). "Air Safety: Is America Ready to 'Fly by Wire'?". Washington Post. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 25 March 2012.
7. ↑ "Airbus BizLab". Airbus. July 2021. Retrieved 2021-07-12.