{"id":24057,"date":"2023-04-26T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T09:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/airbus-appoints-new-head\/"},"modified":"2023-04-26T09:00:58","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T09:00:58","slug":"airbus-shakes-up-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/airbus-shakes-up-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Airbus shakes up leadership of A320-family jet programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Tim Hepher<\/p>\n<p>PARIS (Reuters) -Airbus has changed the leadership of its A320-family jetliner programme, the profit backbone of the world&#8217;s largest planemaker, as it faces a steep production ramp-up in the face of industrial pressures, industry sources said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Current programme leader Michael Menking has been appointed head of special projects for the planemaker&#8217;s core commercial business. He will be replaced by Christoph Zammert, who heads support and services for Airbus Helicopters &#8211; an activity that makes up roughly half of the rotor division&#8217;s revenues.<\/p>\n<p>Airbus said it does not comment on internal appointments.<\/p>\n<p>Production and deliveries of the A320neo and sister models  have been hit by supply chain and industrial problems, though deliveries of the larger A350 have also fallen short recently.<\/p>\n<p>In the first three months of 2023, Airbus achieved fewer quarterly deliveries than arch-rival Boeing for the first time since expanding its portfolio with the Canadian-designed A220 small jetliner in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>While Airbus says deliveries of parts is the chief concern, sources say internal problems have included breakdowns during the past year of the latest robotised assembly line in Hamburg, Germany.<\/p>\n<p>The head of engine supplier Safran said earlier on Wednesday that supply pressures could continue into 2024, adding that engines themselves were no longer the main source of disruption.    <\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Tim HepherEditing by David Goodman and Mark Potter)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/airbus-shakes-up-leadership\/airbus-logo-at-the-airbus-facility-in-montoir-de-bretagne-near-saint-nazaire\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportBusinessNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3P0BE-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3P0BE-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tim Hepher PARIS (Reuters) -Airbus has changed the leadership of its A320-family jetliner programme, the profit backbone of the world&#8217;s largest planemaker, as it faces a steep production ramp-up in the face of industrial pressures, industry sources said on Wednesday. Current programme leader Michael Menking has been appointed head of special projects for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":24058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1213],"tags":[1223],"class_list":["post-24057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-business","tag-updated"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportBusinessNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3P0BE-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24057"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24091,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24057\/revisions\/24091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}