48 A320s to fly out from Tianjin plant
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June 24, 2010, Thursday
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AIRBUS'S assembly plant in north China's Tianjin Municipality plans to roll out 48 A320 aircraft in 2012, nearly double its current production capacity, said senior executives of the joint venture yesterday.
"The assembly line in Tianjin is well on track, and the company is gearing up production and cutting costs to increase efficiency," said Zhao Haishan, chairman of the Tianjin-based Airbus Final Assembly Line China (FALC), in remarks to mark the occasion of the company's first anniversary of the delivery of the first FALC-assembled A320 plane.
Zhao said the latest data showed the plane, bought by Dragon Aviation Leasing and leased to Sichuan Airlines, had shown excellent performance with a record of 100 percent punctuality and dispatch reliability rate after flying 2.5 million kilometers.
As Airbus's first assembly line outside Europe, FALC delivered the first A320 aircraft on June 23, 2009. Since then, it has delivered 22 Airbus A320 planes to seven Chinese carriers.
"The biggest challenge we faced when we launched the FALC project was the question of quality. One year later, the performance of the aircraft indicates that the quality of aircraft we delivered in Tianjin is of the highest achievable level," said Airbus China President Laurence Barron.
FALC is a joint venture between Airbus and a Chinese consortium comprising Tianjin Free Trade Zone and the Aviation Industry Corp of China. Airbus owns 51 percent of the company.
Barron said 100 of the 500 staff members at the Tianjin plant now were expatriates from Europe. The company planned to train the Chinese staff to take over from most of them within two to three years. By then, there would be fewer than 20 European expatriates in the plant.
"The assembly line in Tianjin is well on track, and the company is gearing up production and cutting costs to increase efficiency," said Zhao Haishan, chairman of the Tianjin-based Airbus Final Assembly Line China (FALC), in remarks to mark the occasion of the company's first anniversary of the delivery of the first FALC-assembled A320 plane.
Zhao said the latest data showed the plane, bought by Dragon Aviation Leasing and leased to Sichuan Airlines, had shown excellent performance with a record of 100 percent punctuality and dispatch reliability rate after flying 2.5 million kilometers.
As Airbus's first assembly line outside Europe, FALC delivered the first A320 aircraft on June 23, 2009. Since then, it has delivered 22 Airbus A320 planes to seven Chinese carriers.
"The biggest challenge we faced when we launched the FALC project was the question of quality. One year later, the performance of the aircraft indicates that the quality of aircraft we delivered in Tianjin is of the highest achievable level," said Airbus China President Laurence Barron.
FALC is a joint venture between Airbus and a Chinese consortium comprising Tianjin Free Trade Zone and the Aviation Industry Corp of China. Airbus owns 51 percent of the company.
Barron said 100 of the 500 staff members at the Tianjin plant now were expatriates from Europe. The company planned to train the Chinese staff to take over from most of them within two to three years. By then, there would be fewer than 20 European expatriates in the plant.
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