Airbus has been a success since the opening of the Bourget show with already 240 recorded orders during the first three days. “Today we have more than 8,700 orders, while we produce 800 aircraft per year, we have 11 years of orders for the current production notebook, says the managing director of the Guillaume Faury Group in Télématin. We try to increase our production as soon as possible […] We have not yet returned to the level of production that we had just before the Covid. “
But the head of the European giant is already projected in 2050 with the ambition to achieve carbon neutrality on this horizon acting on its perimeter: the airplanes. To do this, Guillaume Faury is preparing after a post-320, its sales success that represents three quarters of Airbus deliveries every year.
However, the manager considers that it is also necessary to act on the fuels that represent “40 to 50% of the final equation to decarboner” by accelerating the transition to the sustainable aviation fuel. It also begs a more optimal management of air traffic: “We are still with tools that date from the end of World War II, we speak between us on the phone to fly planes when we could have a digital sky that is much more effective.”
Five years of technological development for hydrogen plane
Another important project in which Airbus has worked for several years, the hydrogen plane will not be ready by 2035 as initially desired, for two main reasons according to Guillaume Faury.
“The 5 years of work that we have done came to the conclusion that we can make a hydrogen plane that works, but its competitiveness would not be sufficient compared to those of other airplanes, so there is a risk that airlines not buy it,” he explains, also evoking the problem of “the increase in green hydrogen production that is late.”
Although the aeronautical industry has been exempt from customs duties since 1979, the Director General of Airbus admits that the taxes announced by Trump “interrupt” their activities throughout the Atlantic, but estimates that they “damage for the first time the US aeronautical industry”: “Customs duties submitted to the US administration begin from the principle that the commercial balance is very strong except that they are extremely beneficial.
Source: BFM TV
