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title: "Airbus: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "Airbus SE is a European aerospace corporation. While the company's primary business is the design and manufacture of commercial aircraft, it also operates separate divisions for Defence and Space and Helicopters."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-airbus
type: Organization
wikidata: Q2311
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus
website: https://airbus.com
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# Airbus

> Airbus SE is a European aerospace corporation. While the company's primary business is the design and manufacture of commercial aircraft, it also operates separate divisions for Defence and Space and Helicopters.

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## Facts

- Category: Security and defense
- Country: France
- Founded: 1998-12-29
- Headquarters: Leiden
- Status: public
- Website: https://airbus.com
- Employees: 156,921 (as of 2024-12-31)
- Also known as: EADS, European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company, Airbus Group, Airbus Group NV, Airbus Group SE, Airbus SE
- Industries: spaceflight, arms industry, aviation, aircraft construction

## Accounts

- facebook: https://www.facebook.com/airbus

## Key people

- Guillaume Faury, chief executive (French engineer and executive, CEO Airbus), since 2019-04-01
- Amparo Moraleda, chair (Spanish business executive and industrial engineer), since 2026-10-01
- Henri Ziegler (President of Airbus (1906–1998))
- Felix Kracht (German aerospace engineer (1912–2002))
- Clotilde Armand (Romanian politician)
- John Leahy (businessperson)
- Fernando Alonso (President of Airbus's flight test division)
- Noël Forgeard (French businessman)
- Christian Streiff (French businessman)
- Charles Champion (French businessman)
- Arne Schönbohm (German Manager and former president of the German Federal Office for Information Security)
- Manfred Bischoff (German manager)
- Rainer Hertrich (German businessman)
- Paul Eremenko (technology executive)

## Revenue

- 1999-12-31: EUR 22.6 billion (Wikidata)
- 2000-12-31: EUR 19.4 billion (Wikidata)
- 2001-12-31: EUR 30.8 billion (Wikidata)
- 2002-12-31: EUR 29.9 billion (Wikidata)
- 2003-12-31: EUR 30.1 billion (Wikidata)
- 2004-12-31: EUR 31.8 billion (Wikidata)
- 2005-12-31: EUR 34.2 billion (Wikidata)
- 2006-12-31: EUR 39.4 billion (Wikidata)
- 2007-12-31: EUR 39.1 billion (Wikidata)
- 2008-12-31: EUR 43.3 billion (Wikidata)
- 2009-12-31: EUR 42.8 billion (Wikidata)
- 2010-12-31: EUR 45.8 billion (Wikidata)
- 2011-12-31: EUR 49.1 billion (Wikidata)
- 2012-12-31: EUR 56.5 billion (Wikidata)
- 2013-12-31: EUR 59.3 billion (Wikidata)
- 2014-12-31: EUR 60.7 billion (Wikidata)
- 2015-01-01: EUR 64.5 billion (Wikidata)
- 2016-12-31: EUR 66.6 billion (Wikidata)
- 2017-12-31: EUR 66.8 billion (Wikidata)
- 2018-12-31: EUR 63.7 billion (Wikidata)
- 2019-12-31: EUR 70.5 billion (Wikidata)
- 2020-12-31: EUR 49.9 billion (Wikidata)
- 2021-12-31: EUR 52.1 billion (Wikidata)
- 2022-12-31: EUR 58.8 billion (Wikidata)
- 2023-12-31: EUR 65.4 billion (Wikidata)
- 2024-01-01: EUR 69.2 billion (Wikidata)
- 2025-01-01: EUR 73.4 billion (Wikidata)

## Ownership

Subsidiaries: Airbus Commercial Aircraft, Airbus Helicopters, ATR, Airbus Defence and Space S.A., Airbus Defence and Space Netherlands, Infoterra Ltd, Airbus Operations Limited, Airbus Operations S.A.S., STELIA Aerospace, Airbus Atlantic, Airbus Defence and Space France, Airbus Defence and Space GmbH

## Products

- airplane

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on Airbus, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-airbus#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2311, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus

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