Aircraft
Shakeup at Airbus To See Departure of Enders, Bregier
Airbus Helicopters CEO Guillaume Faury to succeed Bregier in February while search for Enders’s replacement intensifies
Airbus CEO Tom Enders (left) and COO Fabrice Bregier (center) tour the 2017 Dubai Airshow with United Arab Emirates vice president and prime minister Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum. (Photo: Airbus)
Airbus CEO Tom Enders (left) and COO Fabrice Bregier (center) tour the 2017 Dubai Airshow with United Arab Emirates vice president and prime minister Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum. (Photo: Airbus)

Months of turmoil within the management ranks of Airbus reached a climax Thursday with an announcement by the company’s board of directors that Tom Enders will not seek another term as CEO beyond his current mandate of April 2019 and Fabrice Bregier would step down as COO and president of Airbus Commercial Aircraft in February. The company has chosen current Airbus Helicopters CEO Guillaume Faury, 49, to succeed Bregier.