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Airbus Headquarters & offices · Blagnac (Toulouse), France
Airbus · Blagnac (Toulouse), France
A headquarters campus right next to the Toulouse-Blagnac runway, with a 5,000 m² canteen, a fitness centre and streets named after aviation pioneers.
The Wings Campus, the benefits and the long road from Paris and Munich to Toulouse — then the business. Every fact from Airbus's own press releases, careers pages and results, and from the building teams' project pages.
- 1,500employees at the Wings Campus
- 25 monthsfrom ground-breaking to move-in
- 170+nationalities across Airbus
- 165,294employees (end of 2025)
Sources: Airbus press releases “Airbus Group Opens Wings Campus in Toulouse” (June 2016) and FY2025 results (Feb 19, 2026) · airbus.com Inclusion and diversity
Companies / France / Aerospace & defence / Airbus
THE HEADQUARTERS · WINGS CAMPUS · 2016
A campus next to the runway, built in 25 months
The Wings Campus brings the group headquarters together with integrated service buildings beside Toulouse-Blagnac airport, at the heart of Airbus's production and engineering. It houses 1,500 employees, with collaborative office space, a 5,000 m² canteen, a fitness centre, outdoor sports facilities, a café and outdoor Wi-Fi; the buildings are heated and cooled with geothermal energy. The architects' scheme, which won an ideas competition run by Airbus, is laid out around a park.
- 1,500 employees
- 5,000 m² canteen
- Fitness centre + outdoor sports
- Geothermal heating & cooling
- BREEAM Very Good
- Design: CTV Calvo Tran Van Architectes
The Wings Campus, Blagnac
CTV Calvo Tran Van designed the B80 headquarters building beside the Toulouse-Blagnac runway, opened in 2016.
Facts: Airbus press release “Airbus Group Opens Wings Campus in Toulouse” (June 2016) · ATBE project page “Siège social Airbus Group – B80” · Pascal Le Doaré gallery “Airbus Group – B80” (architect credit)
The Wings Campus in Blagnac
| Building | Address |
|---|---|
| Main Office, B80 Building | 2, rond-point Dewoitine, BP 90112, 31703 Blagnac Cedex, France |
| Airbus (commercial aircraft) | 1, rond-point Maurice Bellonte, 31707 Blagnac Cedex, France |
| Airbus SE (registered headquarters) | PO Box 32008, 2303 DA Leiden, The Netherlands |
Source: airbus.com “Contact us” (global contacts) · See them on the map ↓
Source: ATBE project pages “Siège social Airbus Group – B80” and “Campus Airbus” · Airbus Wings Campus press release (2016)
Benefits (vary by country)
Yearly ESOP, subject to Board approval: Airbus matches the shares you buy with extra shares, giving a discount (final grant capped).
Competitive salary plus success sharing and employee share ownership, depending on location.
A company pension contribution.
Flexible working time, hybrid working and sabbatical opportunities.
Health insurance plus meal contributions, childcare support and a sport offer on site.
Employees with access to Leadership University programmes each year, plus training and mentoring.
Paid time off, parental leave and health and welfare benefits including insurance.
Discounts with local and national shops and allowances for transportation.
Source: airbus.com Rewards and Benefits · Employee Share Ownership Plan page · Working at Airbus in the United States · Leadership University press release (2016). Airbus publishes no fixed numbers of leave days.
What keeps people at Airbus, in its own words
More than 20,000 employees a year can join its programmes, courses and workshops; the main campus opened in Toulouse-Blagnac in 2016.
Employees get first access to Airbus's thousands of jobs through an internal job market, across countries.
Each year eligible employees can buy Airbus shares, and Airbus adds matching shares (subject to a cap).
About 10,000 volunteers worldwide, from Pride@Airbus to the WIN women's networks and GenA.
Flexible working time, hybrid working and sabbatical opportunities.
Source: Airbus press release “Airbus Group Opens Leadership University in Toulouse” (Sept 2016) · airbus.com Rewards and Benefits · ESOP page · Inclusion and diversity
Who works here
employees at the end of 2025
nationalities, 20+ languages
employees in France
of white-collar external hires in 2025 were women
Source: Airbus FY2025 results release · airbus.com Inclusion and diversity · Airbus in France
Compare Airbus with: Boeing
Office history: from a 1970 consortium to one campus by the runway
- 1970 Airbus Industrie is set up
To run the A300 programme, Airbus Industrie was formally established as a Groupement d'Intérêt Économique (economic interest group) on 18 December 1970, bringing together partners from France, Germany, Spain and the UK.
Source: airbus.com, “50th Anniversary of the first flight of the Airbus A300” (2022) · “Our Journey” (Airbus)
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1972 Toulouse-Blagnac becomes home
The first A300B1 made its maiden flight in Toulouse on 28 October 1972 and landed back at Blagnac airport. The partners delivered pre-equipped sections to Toulouse for final assembly.
Source: airbus.com, “50th Anniversary of the first flight of the Airbus A300” (2022)
Aérospatiale final assembly hall, Saint-Martin-du-Touch, Toulouse, 1972 · André Cros / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2000 EADS is formed
On 10 July 2000, France's Aerospatiale, Germany's DaimlerChrysler Aerospace and Spain's CASA merged to form the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS).
Source: Airbus, “Our Journey” · airbus.com “Our story”
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2013 Decision to bring the headquarters to Toulouse
In July 2013 the EADS Board decided to rebrand the group as “Airbus Group”, and the same year the group started moving its headquarters functions — then split between two European sites and Toulouse — to one campus in Toulouse-Blagnac.
Source: Airbus ad-hoc release, 9 December 2013 · Wings Campus press release (2016) · ATBE project page B80
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2014 EADS becomes Airbus Group
The group was rebranded Airbus Group on 2 January 2014; shareholders approved the legal name Airbus Group N.V. on 27 May 2014.
Source: Airbus Group Registration Document 2014
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2016 The Wings Campus opens
In June 2016 Airbus Group inaugurated its new headquarters facilities beside the Toulouse-Blagnac runway, built in 25 months for 1,500 employees. The move led to the sale of the Munich (Unterschleißheim) and Paris (Montmorency) sites, which fully paid for the new campus.
Source: Airbus press release “Airbus Group Opens Wings Campus in Toulouse” (June 2016)
The Wings Campus · Photo: Pascal Le Doaré / Studio764 - 2016 Leadership University campus
In September 2016 the main campus of the new Airbus Group Leadership University opened in Toulouse-Blagnac, open to more than 20,000 employees a year.
Source: Airbus press release “Airbus Group Opens Leadership University in Toulouse” (Sept 2016)
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - Today B80, rond-point Dewoitine
Airbus's main office is the B80 Building at 2, rond-point Dewoitine in Blagnac, while Airbus SE's registered headquarters is in Leiden, the Netherlands.
Source: airbus.com, “Contact us”
B80, rond-point Dewoitine, 2024 · Nemausensis Asinus / CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Map: how the headquarters moved
Until 2016 the group's head office was split between Paris, Munich and Toulouse. Selling the Paris and Munich sites paid for one campus beside the Toulouse-Blagnac runway, about 700 km from Paris.
- 1 · until 2016Paris (Montmorency site) — Former headquarters site, sold after the move to Toulouse
- 2 · until 2016Munich (Unterschleißheim) — Former headquarters site, sold after the move to Toulouse
- 3 · todayLeiden, the Netherlands — Registered headquarters of Airbus SE
- 4 · 2016–todayWings Campus, Blagnac — Main office: B80 Building, 2 rond-point Dewoitine
Places: Wings Campus press release (2016) · airbus.com Contact us · Locations: OpenStreetMap
What Airbus does
Airbus designs and builds commercial aircraft, helicopters, and defence and space systems. In 2025 it delivered 793 commercial aircraft and 392 helicopters.
Three businesses: Airbus (commercial aircraft), Airbus Helicopters, and Airbus Defence and Space.
Where the money came from · revenues by business, 2025
Source: Airbus FY2025 results release (Feb 19, 2026). Business revenues add up to more than the group total because of eliminations.
Source: Airbus FY2025 results release · “Airbus reports 793 commercial aircraft deliveries in 2025” (Jan 2026)
Growth: revenue vs. people
€63.7B → €73.4B
133,671 → 165,294
Calendar years, in euros. Revenue and employees: Airbus full-year results releases for FY2019, FY2021, FY2023 and FY2025 (each gives the prior year too). Multiples calculated by eciffo.
Chief executives
CEO since April 2019, re-appointed in 2025. Previously President of the commercial aircraft business (from February 2018) and CEO of Airbus Helicopters.
CEO until the April 2019 AGM; opened the Wings Campus headquarters in 2016.
Airbus Industrie was founded in 1970 by partners from France, Germany, Spain and the UK.
Source: airbus.com Guillaume Faury biography · press release “Airbus Board of Directors Selects Guillaume Faury Future Chief Executive Officer” (Oct 2018) · 2019 AGM agenda release
Airbus: questions people ask
Where is Airbus's headquarters?
Airbus's main office is the B80 Building at 2, rond-point Dewoitine in Blagnac, next to Toulouse-Blagnac airport in France. The parent company, Airbus SE, is registered in Leiden, the Netherlands.
Source: airbus.com Contact us
What is the Airbus Wings Campus?
The headquarters campus Airbus opened in June 2016 beside the Toulouse-Blagnac runway. It houses 1,500 employees and has a 5,000 m² canteen, a fitness centre, outdoor sports facilities and a café, heated and cooled with geothermal energy.
Source: Airbus press release, June 2016
Who designed Airbus's headquarters?
CTV Calvo Tran Van Architectes designed the B80 headquarters building; its scheme won an ideas competition run by Airbus. Campus 3 next door was designed by CTV with Valode & Pistre.
Source: ATBE project pages · Pascal Le Doaré gallery credits
How big is Airbus's headquarters building?
The B80 headquarters building is about 21,000 m² (≈ 226,042 sq ft); Campus 3, with two office buildings and a well-being centre, adds about 12,800 m².
Source: ATBE project pages
Why did Airbus move its headquarters to Toulouse?
In 2013 the group decided to bring its head-office functions, then split between two European sites and Toulouse, onto one campus. The Munich (Unterschleißheim) and Paris (Montmorency) sites were sold to pay for it.
Source: Wings Campus press release (2016) · ATBE project page B80
How many people work at Airbus?
165,294 employees at the end of 2025, from more than 170 nationalities. More than 56,000 work in France.
Source: Airbus FY2025 results release · airbus.com
What benefits does Airbus offer?
Benefits vary by country. They include a yearly employee share plan where Airbus adds matching shares, success sharing, a company pension contribution, flexible and hybrid working, sabbatical opportunities, health insurance and on-site meal, childcare and sport services.
Source: airbus.com Rewards and Benefits · ESOP page
Does Airbus allow hybrid or remote work?
Airbus says it offers flexible working time, hybrid working possibilities and sabbatical opportunities; in France it mentions flexible hours and remote work options.
Source: airbus.com Rewards and Benefits · Working at Airbus in France
Who is Airbus's CEO?
Guillaume Faury, CEO since April 2019 and re-appointed in 2025. He succeeded Tom Enders, who had been CEO since 2012.
Source: airbus.com Guillaume Faury biography · 2019 AGM agenda release
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