Europe's Airbus has finalised an agreement to take some assets from Spirit AeroSystems, both companies said on Monday, completing a critical part of a transatlantic carve-up of the struggling supplier with U.

The companies entered into a definitive deal for the acquisition of some Spirit industrial assets dedicated to Airbus’s commercial aircraft programs.

Airbus has finalised a deal to take over Spirit AeroSystems’ facilities that make vital components for some of its aircraft programmes, clearing the way for US rival Boeing to complete a takeover of the supplier that it spun out two decades ago.