By sea and land to the assembly line

Airbus SAS will deliver 36 A380 planes, the largest passenger aircraft in the world, in 2014. It produces three jumbos each month.

There was an order backlog of 192 planes for the A380 at the end of May. As of that date, Airbus had received 324 orders for the A380 and achieved 132 deliveries.

To deliver the planes on time, the European airplane manufacturer shares the work across four main sites in Europe.