Paris — Airbus on Monday formally kicked off a leaner corporate structure under CEO Tom Enders, following a recent merger between its parent company and its dominant aircraft manufacturing arm, and confirmed a reorganisation of its commercial sales. Confirming changes first announced last year, the reorganisation involves a single corporate headquarters in Toulouse, France, with Fabrice Bregier as group-wide chief operating officer and president of commercial aircraft. "Airbus will benefit from a simpler structure that enables faster decision-making, less bureaucracy, greater collaboration and increased efficiency," the company said. Reuters reported last week that the shake-up would now entail Airbus’s sales team, best known for contesting leadership of the jetliner market with Boeing, reporting directly to Enders instead of to Bregier. The move is seen as sensitive because it revisits a power-sharing deal between Enders and Bregier that initially gave the Frenchman responsibility ...
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