Airbus Supplier Awards
Recognising the commitment and achievements of our suppliers
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Awards
We take pride in recognising the commitment and achievements of our suppliers with the Airbus Supplier Awards.
It is also a way to highlight their outstanding work in different areas such as Industrial Performance, Sustainability, Innovation, Competitive Excellence, Customer support and to congratulate them.
Commercial Aircraft
This year we took the opportunity to award and congratulate a number of suppliers who have made significant contributions to our key Airbus priorities : driving our ramp-up with operational resilience, fostering quality and safety without compromise, pursuing our sustainability ambition, embracing a pioneering mindset in innovation and digitalisation, and demonstrating a dedication to customer satisfaction.
A350F MSN700 First flight - landing seen from helico
Winners: 2026
Commercial Aircraft
- Competitive collaboration: Safran ED
- Ramp up & Operational Excellence: Airgrup
- Quality champions: Novelis (Zhenjiang)
- Sustainable future: Engie & Siemens
- Game changer: Mankiewicz
- Customer focus: Siemens SAS
Airbus Family Flight
Categories
Commercial Aircraft
The awards are organised into six categories:
- Competitive collaboration: Reward active engagement in joint cost reduction initiatives, encouraging proactive cost-saving, transparency, and data sharing for mutual competitiveness.
- Ramp up & operational excellence champion: Best improver to secure ramp-up. Reward operational excellence, resilience, maturity, and de-risking in a complex VUCA context.
- Quality champion: Reward suppliers delivering exceptional quality standards (zero defects mindset), proactive risk mitigation, and continuous delivery performance.
- Sustainable future: Reward projects supporting Airbus in achieving its decarbonisation and sustainability targets across environmental, social, and ethical scopes.
- Game changer: Reward breakthrough product, technology, digital/AI, or service innovations that solve key operational challenges and pioneer new possibilities.
- Customer focus: Reward significant performance improvement in aftermarket rankings, customer satisfaction, and reliable support to airlines.
Airbus Helicopters
Airbus rewards the exceptional contribution of our Helicopters suppliers.
Build Helicopters
Winners
Airbus Helicopters
- Competitive Collaboration: GARMIN
- Ramp-up & Operational Excellence: REXIAA & GLPF
- Sustainable Future: GACHES CHIMIE
- Game Changer: FREGATE
- Customer Support: SABENA TECHNICS
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Categories
Airbus Helicopters
The awards are organised into five categories:
- Competitive Collaboration: Reward engagement in joint cost reduction initiatives, recognising a collaborative mindset to drive competitiveness and increase efficiency.
- Ramp-up Champion: Best improver to secure ramp-up. Reward operational excellence and resilience in VUCA context.
- Sustainable Future: Reward a project that supports Airbus in achieving its sustainability objectives. All scope of decarbonization path but not limited to environment (Human rights, corporate social responsibility).
- Game Changer: Demonstrating an innovation and pioneering mindset through product or technology development or digital innovation.
- Customer Support:
Supplier Efficiency and respect of commitments OTD/OTR (spare/repair).
Supplier proposing and developing sustainable proactive solutions.
Customer satisfaction.
Airbus Defence and Space
Airbus rewards the exceptional contribution of Defence and Space suppliers.
Space header - satellites orbiting the earth
Winners
Airbus Defence and Space
- Industrial Performance: DELL
- Innovation: SAAB
- Sustainability: Kühne and Nagel
- Agility: Voestalpine Böhler
Airbus Military family flight Seville taxiing and take-off
Categories
Airbus Defence and Space
The awards are organised into four categories:
- Industrial Performance: The supplier demonstrates good On Time Delivery with records in anticipating and mitigating risk, high level quality standards and APQP (Advanced Product Quality Planning) culture. Transparent and proactive in sharing options and recovery plans, flexible and supportive in adapting plans to meet the Airbus Defence & Space needs & Resilience.
- Sustainability: The supplier is engaged in a sustainability journey in compliance with the Supplier Code of Conduct.
- Innovation: The supplier R&D plan and product roadmap is fully aligned with Airbus Defence & Space needs, the supplier has achieved significant results in technology or product fostering next generation performance and competitiveness.
- Agility: It is about commercial but also product, the supplier solution and services directly and effectively contribute to Airbus Defence & Space competitiveness and business success as well as Offset/Global sourcing.
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