It came out on Monday morning in the Financial Times Deutschland and was then confirmed a few hours later in the afternoon by Marcella Muratore, head of communication, quoted in Le Monde. Airbus will reduce jobs of suppliers up to 80%. That means that the number of suppliers will decrease "from around 3000 to approximately 500"(and what will do the 2500 others?;-). This plan should allow Airbus to reduce their administrative cost from 900 millions till 2010 and some other 350 millions for supply. They also plan to reduce the number of logistic platform from 80 to less than 8! At the end the plan of reorganization should save around 2 billions euros for the next few years. And we all think that's because Airbus has a lot of industrialization problems with his last suer-jumbo jet A380, whose delay costs a lot to Airbus. That's obviously true but what western newspapers forget to tell us (on purpose or not...) it's that in the mean time EADS, which is the holder of Aibus, plans to open a brand new technology campus in Bangalore, India. Indeed, the agreement was sign on August 29th, between EDAS CEO Tom Enders and India top officials and sets the basis of a collaboration for EADS with India. According to Air&Cosmos magazine EADS will set up a Technology Center in Bangalore (the agreement for the location and the construction came a few days ago) with a major investment up to 2 billions euros over the next 15 years. The Engineering Centre Airbus India expect to start operations in the second quarter of 2007 and the entire campus will be inaugurated in early 2008. The EADS Technology Centre will start with 100 local employees and increase it to 800 in three years and 2,000 in 10 years. And now do you know how much money earn a good Indian aeronautical engineer? about 30 000 Rps which makes a bit more than 600 euros per month! So now you know why they want to save 2 billions euros and where they will reinvestment then... ;-)
By the way... are you employed directly by EADS or are you a supplier? ;-)