Airbus celebrates its 10,000 with e aircraft delivered, a A350-900 Singapore Airlines – Europe1

And one more which is 10.000. Airbus celebrated on Friday in the outskirts of Toulouse, the delivery of the 10,000 th aircraft, an A350-900 designed to the company of Singapore Airlines, announced the company.

A ceremony and a special logo. The device delivered during a ceremony in Colomiers, in the presence of the boss of Airbus Group, Tom Enders, and the boss of the company’s singaporean Goh Choon Phong, is the “logo special 10.000 th Airbus”.This unit is the sixth in an order total of 67 aircraft, said Airbus Group in a press release, stressing that it will be used to launch new non-stop services from the airline between Singapore and San Francisco.

“At least 650 aircraft delivered in 2016. The delivery of the 10,000 th unit occurs at the time that the manufacturer ensures to reach “at its highest production level of all time” with “at least 650 aircraft delivered in 2016, in a “wide range of products” of aircraft from 100 to over 600 seats. The current line of products, Airbus has a total of 16 versions belonging to four families of aircraft : A320, A330, A350 XWB and A380.

“Since the establishment of our company, innovation has been at the heart of all our developments at Airbus. And it is this that has enabled us to develop our family of aircraft, considered today as the most modern and complete in the world,” said Tom Enders. In total, Airbus indicates it has to date registered more than hosts 16,700 orders for its different versions of aircraft, currently operated by more than 400 airlines in the world.

A record backlog of orders. The backlog, that includes 6.700 aircraft, to be delivered, is the largest ever registered by a manufacturer, and represents approximately 10 years of full production at rates current, adds the group.

42 years of deliveries. Airbus has delivered its first aircraft, an A300B2, to Air France on 10 may 1974. Working initially in the area of the big carriers with its A300 and A310, it had evolved in the mid-1980s with the launch of the aircraft mono-corridors A320, its best-selling. The technologies and standards of the A320 have then been integrated on the A330 and A340 in the early 1990′s, demonstrating for the first time that mono-corridors and large-holders could benefit from operational characteristics similar. This similarity can now be found in “the whole of the company’s products”, including the A380,” says the group, whose ambition is to continue to provide “significant benefits in terms of reduction of fuel consumption, regularity technique in operation and of comfort.”

Airbus encounter challenges, however, in regard to the sales of the A380, and has embarked on a reorganization that could include job cuts.