The A350 XWB Final Assembly Line: efficiency in motion

The A350 XWB final assembly line -- located near Airbus' existing A330 jetliner assembly facility in Toulouse, France -- has been thought out with efficiency in mind to obtain a shorter assembly time and a more effective test programme. When A350 XWB production reaches full capacity, the complete process, from the beginning of final assembly through delivery to the customer, will take two and a half months, which represents a 30 per cent time-saving compared with the other programmes.

[tylerboy]

Im so excited, I ordered two of the -900's back in June, airbus says my first one should be ready by March 2014

[Jabid]

I'm loving the aircraft structure based on the recent pictures. The wing looks amazing to me. Can't wait to see it painted with engines on.

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A380, A340, A330, A350, and A320 series are my favorite planes

[MrChaostheory]

Mid 2013. You should watch the long A350xwb FAL video. Many answers there.

[karthik]

A perfect blend of music n engineering..

[tylerboy]

Im so excited to fly one in March 2014!

[btbwuh]

Power to Progress- Darren Loveday & Stephen Loveday

[MrBadigard]

you are right..!!!i tottaly agree with you..to be precise Qatar Airways has ordered twenty (20) A350-800s, forty (40) A350-900s and twenty (20) A350-1000s to forty three (43) A350-900s and thirty seven (37) A350-1000s. Qatar Airways’ total order for A350 XWB aircraft remains at eighty (80) aircraft. magical numbers..!!!

[frylucas]

as a Commercial Aircraft, yes, Qatar should get the first commercial A350-900 in Q2/Q3 of 2014
but, Testbed first flight(MSN 1) is confirmed for summer of 2013...

[MrJonniconni]

AIRBUS quality is in a higher class by its own.

[esundproductions]

That cockpit looks amazing. It will be tough to beat the 787 though

[metalbillyboy]

basically in all of their airplanes they use composites, however, the a350 xwb uses by far the most. especially the entire hull is made out of carbon fibre composite

[MrChaostheory]

A number of reason.

1 - Not enough space at Toulouse for the entire family.

2 - Politics. Germany, France, Spain and to a lesser extent the UK, have a work-share agreement.

3 - Boeing's integration process is in many regards, more complicated and spread out than that of Airbus. (Remember, the US is about twice the size of the EU and they still have 787 parts coming from Japan and elsewhere)

[SpectreMk]

We are still waiting for you about supersonic and double decker airliners ;)

[AirbusAFan]

Where the testflight is? At Toulouse or at Hamburg? Can you see this wonderfull plane at the first flight.

[tylerboy]

March 2014 baby!, woohoo thats when my 2 350-900's arrive!

[BeatsbyDreLasVegas]

Can't wait till 2014!! Sick of my 777.... :P getting the 800 plus the 787.

[Xumepoc]

Love the A350:):):) Any one knows if the song is made for the video or it can be found somewhere?

[AirbusAFan]

When this wonderful plane make his first fly? Sorry for my english, I am from germany.

[MrFlightPilot]

Looks like A350 cockpit will have more of a technology yolk stick of a one hand, like the A380.