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Guillaume Faury

Chief Executive Officer, Airbus SE

Search every verified Guillaume Faury interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Guillaume Faury, CEO of Airbus, appeared before French parliamentary committees in October 2026 to discuss the company's operations and industrial strategy. During a hearing on the 2027 Finance Bill, he defended Airbus's Franco-German governance model against criticism from a National Rally deputy, stating that French and German employees are "in cooperation" rather than competition and that the company's external rivals are the primary focus. He also cited new assembly lines in Toulouse and Hamburg as evidence of a balanced industrial distribution between the two countries. In a separate appearance before the Economic Affairs Committee, Faury warned that investing industrially in France has become "an obstacle course" due to regulatory burdens and the over-transposition of European standards, which he said puts the country at a disadvantage compared to competitors like the United States and China. He referenced the decline of the French automotive industry—citing a drop from 3.7 million vehicles produced in 2004 to 1.4 million in 2024—as a cautionary example for aviation. Faury also noted Airbus's order book of over 9,000 aircraft and discussed the company's efforts to accelerate production and collaborate on sovereign satellite constellations, while emphasizing the need for favorable investment conditions to sustain future projects.

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“We have a very large order book, more than 9,000 aircraft, which is a great opportunity but also a great obligation because Airbus has made commitments to deliver these aircraft under certain conditions at given dates to our customers, at a time when they need to renew their fleets and put into service aircraft that consume less. The price of fuel right now is a reminder for them of the absolute urgency to switch to ”

“Actually Airbus is the largest EU defense company. But that's not what we are known for. Airbus is known for commercial aircraft, for helicopters, for satellites, for a lot of systems, but mostly from the civil side. Because actually 80% of our turnover is in commercial and civil. Only 20% is in defense. But 20% makes Airbus the largest EU defense company.”

“In Europe it's now more than 75 years of peace. And none of us in this room, I guess, has ever faced ever faced a situation of war that the generations before us saw in Europe. And for 75 years, we've grabbed the fruits, the dividends of peace. Uh defense budgets have gone down. And we focused on other priorities thinking that we would have peace forever. Uh we've put our security mostly in the hands of NATO relying ”

“We need scale and when Europe comes together we have the scale and we can compete and be efficient. When we are too fragmented, when we don't manage to cooperate, to play as one block, then we are slower than the others. So really cooperation, thinking at scale and the second one is speed. And back to my previous message, I'm amazed with what we see happening in some parts of the US. I'm traveling to China quite ofte”

“Europe is taking a very different approach which is to regulate upfront to try to reduce or prevent risk from happening. Well, that that's something we can understand, but at the same time, it's limiting the opportunities. It's reducing the speed of action and the field of action. I think today there is a need for Europe and that's what we're hearing to rebalance to be able to accept more risk to have much more oppor”

“Well, we just signed the memorandum of understanding with Thales and Leonardo to create that European player that is able to or will be able to compete at scale on on the global competitive landscape. So, that's really good. We are not only willing to compete with with SpaceX and Starlink. Obviously that's a a big player and and a fastmoving player but we are serving many other needs including defense in Europe and a”

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