Seventeen years after EADS and BAE Systems announced their landmark decision to transform Airbus Industrie from a GIE consortium into an Airbus Integrated Company (AIC), Airbus Group announced that the integration process had reached a new phase following the merger of the Group structure with its largest division, Commercial Aircraft, on 1st July.

Following a reorganisation announced in September 2016, Airbus will benefit from a simpler structure that enables faster decision-making, less bureaucracy, greater collaboration and increased efficiency. This structure will also facilitate the digitalisation programme currently under implementation.

The newly merged Airbus together with the two divisions, Helicopters and Defence & Space, are served by fully integrated support teams in key functions such as finance, human resources, legal, ethics and compliance, strategy & international and communications.

Within the streamlined structure, key members of the executive management team are:

• Tom Enders, Chief Executive Officer,

• Fabrice Brégier, Chief Operating Officer and President Commercial Aircraft,

• Dirk Hoke, Chief Executive Officer of Defence & Space,

• Guillaume Faury, Chief Executive Officer of Helicopters,

• Harald Wilhelm, Chief Financial Officer,

• Thierry Baril, Chief Human Resources Officer,

• John Harrison, General Counsel.

Airbus now has one single corporate headquarters in Toulouse, home to the Company’s single largest industrial site.