Hyderabad-born Anand steering Airbus India

Hyderabad: City-born Anand Stanley is steering Airbus India. He also looks after South Asian operations of the world's largest aircraft manufacturer. He was educated in city.

"As a Hyderabadi, nothing would make me happier than to see more of Airbus works coming into India and into Hyderabad especially," he said on Thursday. With world-class engineering and training centres and 45-strong supplier network, Airbus' industrial footprint in India set new standards among international aircraft manufacturers. Airbus currently employs 7,000 people in India including 1,500 engineers.

"Today, every Airbus commercial aircraft is partly made in India and we are working to double our sourcing volumes from the country to more than $1 billion by 2025," he said. Annual sourcing from India currently stands at $650 million per year.