Airbus in the U.S.

With over 1,100 Airbus jetliners flying in the fleets of U.S. and Canadian airlines today, there is an operator in North America for nearly every model of the company’s modern, efficient product line. Overall, more than 3,200 Airbus aircraft have been ordered in North America from customers that include Delta, FedEx, Frontier Airlines, GECAS, Hawaiian Airlines, ILFC, jetBlue Airways, Spirit Airlines, United Airlines, UPS, US Airways and Virgin America.

For the production of its jetliners, Airbus spends 42 percent of its aircraft-related procurement in the U.S. – buying more parts, components, tooling and other material from the United States than any other country. Workers in more than 40 states help build Airbus aircraft, supporting 210,000 high-quality manufacturing jobs across the U.S. Airbus’ first U.S. production facility – to be located at the Brookley Aeroplex in Mobile, Alabama – is planned for operation beginning in 2015, with this new site to perform final assembly of A319s, A320s and A321s.

Since 1990, Airbus has spent $127 billion in the U.S. with hundreds of American suppliers. This supplier network involves some of the most respected names in American aerospace, including Alcoa, Eaton, GE, Goodrich, Hamilton Sundstrand, Honeywell, Northrop Grumman, PPG, Pratt & Whitney, Rockwell Collins and Spirit Aerosystems.