The Airbus series of airliners used full-authority FBW controls beginning with their A320 series, see A320 flight control ( though some limited FBW functions existed on A310 ).

In June 2006, it was announced that an Airbus A320 assembly plant would be built in the Binhai New Area of Tianjin, with the first aircraft to be delivered in 2008.

On 6 September 2012 the company opened a new column-free three-bay hangar for Base Maintenance works of narrow-body aircraft, such as Boeing 737 and Airbus A320.

On 27 November 2008 an Air New Zealand Airbus A320 leased to XL Airways Germany with seven people on board crashed into the sea east of Perpignan during a test flight.

* Airbus A320 family

Examples include the Boeing 717, 737, 757, McDonnell Douglas DC-9 and MD-80 / MD-90 series, Airbus A320 family, Tupolev Tu-204, Tu-214, Embraer E-Jets 190 & 195 and Tu-334.

* Airbus A320 – pioneered the use of fly-by-wire technology

An Airbus A320 family | Airbus A320 baggage hold

It is also involved in two major joint ventures, the Engine Alliance with GE which manufactures engines for the Airbus A380, and International Aero Engines company with Rolls-Royce, MTU Aero Engines, and the Japanese Aero Engines Corporation which manufactures engines for the Airbus A320 and the McDonnell Douglas MD-90 aircraft.

International Aero Engines is a joint venture that develops, builds and services the V2500 aero engine family, which powers the Airbus A320 family and McDonnell Douglas MD-90 aircraft.

APIC APS3200 APU for Airbus A318, A319, A320, and A321

An EasyJet Airbus A320 family | Airbus A319, taxiing to the runway for its departure.

A Thomas Cook Airlines Airbus A320 family | Airbus A320 on stand, soon to operate a chartered service to a seaside destination.

America West Airlines Airbus A320 family # A319 | Airbus A319 departing Portland International Airport

An Airbus A320 family # A320 | Airbus A320 in the current America West / US Airways livery at San Diego International Airport

A Volaris Airbus A320 family | A319 parked at Terminal 1 on a rainy day.

Airbus A320 family | Airbus A321-200

The Airbus A319 entered service on 13 March 2008, making RJ the first Middle East airline to operate three aircraft of the Airbus A320 family.

Airbus A320 family | Airbus A319-100 in 2009

Airbus A320 family | Airbus A320-200 in 2009

An Airbus A321 of Spanish airline Iberia Airlines | Iberia

The wing of a landing BMI ( airline ) | BMI Airbus A319-100.

Air France | Air France's Airbus A380, which is operated on the Washington Dulles to Paris-Charles de Gaulle route, taxiing at Dulles Airport.

Underside of an Airbus A380 | A380.

An example of a wing of the first Airbus model, the Airbus A300 | A300

The Airbus A330 is a wide-body aircraft | wide-body airliner

Northwest Airlines Airbus A330 | Airbus A330-323X

Airbus A340 | Airbus A340-300 at Barcelona Airport | Barcelona's Iberia Maintenance.

Boeing, Airbus, Ilyushin and Tupolev concentrate on wide-body and narrow-body jet airliners, while Bombardier, Embraer and Sukhoi concentrate on regional airliners.

The domestic apron has four parking bays for narrow-body ( Boeing 737 / Airbus A320-sized ) aircraft, overlaid by two positions for small wide-body ( Boeing 767-sized ) aircraft.

It has an all Boeing fleet of narrow-body aircraft and a confirmed joint order, with Hong Kong Airlines, of 51 narrow-and wide-body aircraft with Airbus.

* Atlas, official name for the Airbus A400M transport aircraft

* 1991 – The Airbus A340 aircraft makes its first flight.

* 2005 – The superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse, France.

The Dassault Falcon private jets are built there as well as the military aircraft Rafale and Mirage 2000, the Airbus A380 cockpit, the boosters of Ariane 5, and the M51 SLBM missile.

Aer Lingus, Ireland's national flag carrier has named one of its Airbus A330 aircraft in commemoration of the saint ( reg: EI-DUO ).

* Airbus and Boeing in the commercial large jet aircraft market

In many modern airliners aircraft, for example all Airbus aircraft developed from the 1980s, the joystick has received a new lease on life for flight control in the form of a " sidestick " — a controller similar to a games joystick, but which is used to control the flight, replacing the traditional yoke.

The government of Luxembourg has ordered 1 Airbus A400M transport aircraft in cooperation with the Belgian Air Component and will be delivered in 2019.

Domestic flights are operated using Fokker 50, Saab 340, Airbus 319 and Bombardier Q400 aircraft.

Together, these nine airlines had a combined fleet of some 860 aircraft, mostly Boeing from the United States and Airbus from France.

To meet growing demands for passenger and cargo capacity, in 2005 these airlines significantly expanded their fleets with orders placed for additional Boeing and Airbus aircraft expected to be delivered by 2010.

It can accommodate Boeing 757, Boeing 737, Airbus 320 series, Avro RJ, Fokker 70, and ATR 72 aircraft.

Civilian work increased in the form of participating in design and manufacture of parts for Airbus aircraft, most notably A380 spoilers.

Although the rule still applies, the visible fuselage " waisting " can only be seen on a few aircraft, such as the B-1B Lancer, Learjet 60, and the Tupolev Tu-160 ' Blackjack ' — the same effect is now achieved by careful positioning of aircraft components, like the boosters and cargo bay on rockets ; the jet engines in front of ( and not directly below ) the wings of the Airbus A380 ; the jet engines behind ( and not purely at the side of ) the fuselage of a Cessna Citation X ; the shape and location of the canopy on the F-22 Raptor ; and the image of the Airbus A380 above showing obvious area rule shaping at the wing root, which is practically invisible from any other angle.

Toulouse is the centre of the European aerospace industry, with the headquarters of Airbus, Galileo positioning system, the SPOT satellite system, ATR ( aircraft manufacturer ), the Aerospace Valley, considered as a cluster global, the city also host l ' Oncopole de Toulouse, the largest cancer research centre in Europe, the European headquarters of Intel and CNES's Toulouse Space Centre ( CST ), the largest space centre in Europe.

The group includes Airbus, the leading manufacturer of commercial aircraft worldwide.

The Boeing 747 was the world's biggest passenger aircraft from 1970 until it was surpassed by the Airbus A380 in 2005.