Airbus Military

If you recently travelled with a plane made by the European manufacturer Airbus, it's very likely that the doors you've entered through have been produced by another French giant in the airline industry - Latecoere. After a while, somewhat surprisingly, some of these doors will be produced in Bulgaria, as on Wednesday the company opened its own factory in the industrial zone near Plovdiv.

Turkey is preparing for further delays in the delivery of two A400M military transport aircraft it ordered from Airbus Group, according to defense officials in Ankara.

It signed a deal for 10 of the heavy cargo and troop carriers in 2003 as part of a group of seven European NATO nations, expecting its part of the order to be fulfilled by 2018.