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Airbus aims to eliminate, between now and mid-2026, up to 2,500 jobs in its satellite production division, that is hindering your results financialin a new sign of the bad times that are going on for the European aerospace industry.
In a statement, the European manufacturer explains that it is trying to adapt “to a difficult context for its activity” and that it plans to apply measures to achieve a “more effective and efficient organizational structure for the division.” Defense y Space.
“These measures should lead to a reduction of up to 2,500 jobs between now and mid-2026” in that division, which currently has about 35 thousand employees, according to that source.
Airbus did not detail how it will carry out this personnel reduction, but said it wants to avoid “restrictive measures” and promised to work to “limit the social impact” of this decision.
World number one in telecommunications satellites, the European giant has been affected for several years “by a very difficult and rapidly changing business climate, with disruptions in supply chains, changes in the way of waging war and pressure on costs due to budget constraints,” he explained. Michael Schoellhorndirector of Airbus Defense and Space.
Thales announced a redistribution plan for 1,300 positions.