Airbus India CEO Srinivasan Dwarakanath

Airbus is combining its operations in India with the creation of a wholly owned subsidiary, Airbus India, to manage the company’s activities spread across several sites around the country.

With customer facing centres in Delhi and Mumbai, the new Airbus India will include strategy, customer services and procurement teams in one organisation.

A maintenance repair and overhaul (MRO) capability will also be set-up in the country at a later date.

The company has appointed Srinivasan Dwarakanath as the CEO, and Airbus Engineering EVP Charles Champion as chairman of Airbus India.

Dwarakanath said that partnership is the binding ingredient for success, and the establishment of Airbus India underpins the company’s strategy to foster even closer ties.

"The Airbus India organisation will foster innovation, respond quickly to growth and to seek out new cooperation opportunities in India."

"Building on our significant engineering presence in India. the new company structure will add a strong customer facing element making us more agile, bringing us closer to stakeholders, suppliers, and also to new talent," Dwarakanath said.

"The Airbus India organisation will foster innovation, respond quickly to growth and to seek out new cooperation opportunities in India."

Dwarakanath managed setting up of Airbus’s industrial footprint in the region, including the Airbus Engineering Centre India (AECI) and Airbus Training India (ATI) both located in the city of Bangalore.

There are around 30 Indian suppliers working on Airbus programmes and manufacturing parts for every aircraft model.

Indian carriers currently operate more than 170 Airbus aircraft.

Image: Srinivasan Dwarakanath has been appointed CEO of Airbus India. Photo: courtesy of Airbus SAS.

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