Airbus plan Airbus is a famous company in the airline industry. One of the biggest qualities is the ethical principles, the moral principles they practice, and the clean reputation they have. First of all, it is important to emphasize its high integrity and the excellent quality of safety culture. The most important ethical principles inside and outside the company's environment is to maintain a firm commitment, trust, responsibility, respect, honesty, and fairness for people inside and outside the company.
Airbus doubles the production of A380 in 2010 and plans to launch two aircraft per month (Arab Supply Chain 2010). Airbus insists that the monthly production capacity is four aircraft, which indicates that the company needs to simplify the production process. In order to simplify production, Airbus needs to integrate various production sites and their suppliers and processes. (Frohlich and Westbrook 2001) In the manufacturing industry, it is pointed out that the integration of upstream and downstream suppliers and customers is becoming increasingly important. The degree of integration among suppliers of manufactured products is key to the manufacturing industry to achieve outstanding performance (Ragatz et al. 1997). Therefore, the production capacity of Airbus's four monthly production depends on effective integration with suppliers. There are two types of integration: forward integration and backward integration.
North America is an important area for Airbus for aircraft sales and suppliers. Among the approximately 5,300 Airbus Jets sold worldwide by Airbus, 2,000 represents each lineup from 107 A 318 to 565 A 380, all ordered by North American customers. According to Airbus, US contractors supporting an estimated 120,000 jobs are estimated to have sales of $ 5.5 billion (2003). For example, in terms of work sharing, the A380 version contains 51% of the US content.
Airbus A 380 brought several problems to the Airbus development team. Airbus usually manufactures aircraft in four different European countries, all of which are assembled in France. Airbus A 380 is no exception, and its parts are manufactured in the UK, Spain, Germany and France. However, the size of the A380 is so large that the Airbus Designated Super Transporter A 300-600 is usually too small to be used for transporting Airbus aircraft from European countries.