The aeronautical sector continues to recover. “2023 should be a better year than 2022,” Guillaume Faury, president of the Groupement des Industries françaises Aeronautiques et Spacials (Gifas) and chief executive of Airbus, said on the BFM Business show Thursday morning. “The environment is still difficult in many aspects, but we are optimistic,” he added.
“Les clients sont là, la demande est forte et la dificulté c’est de livrer”, a decrit Guillaume Faury, pointant “a contradiction très forte between a marché who is becoming three porters and an incapacité à serve ce marché comme on aimerait le do”. “In 2020-2021 we had a demand crisis, there we have a supply crisis,” he continued, while Airbus’ target of delivering 700 aircraft by 2022 was not met.
“It is a real concern, a lot of regret and frustration because the demand is there,” commented the Airbus CEO, without giving the number of deliveries made in 2022. “The challenge for 2023 is to get to make this start.” of the aerospace industry that benefits from a very favorable situation at the macroeconomic, market level but with great difficulties to execute ”, he summarized.
The sector wants to hire 16,000 people
To achieve this, the French aeronautical sector wants to hire 16,000 people in 2023. “We hired some 15,000 people in the sector last year. We believe that we will hire 15,000 or 16,000 this year”, indicates Guillaume Faury. “Airbus has done well, but we absolutely need small and medium-sized companies in 2023 to be able to hire too.”
The president of GIFAS is committed to the 2023 Paris Air Show, which returns next June after four years of absence. “We’re going to make it an absolutely terrific show as a platform to communicate, hire, engage young people,” he said. “Young people have a great desire to contribute to something useful. They are passionate about the challenges we have to face”, Guillaume Faury is convinced.
Asked about the Atos dossier, the Airbus chief executive said he did not accept “hearing that Airbus is not French enough for cybersecurity or other activities” after the government showed little enthusiasm for the European planemaker’s crackdown on Athos. Airbus is already “a player in France’s most sovereign activities,” he insisted.
Although the aeronautical group would be competing to acquire a minority stake in the capital of Evidian, a future subsidiary of Atos, Guillaume Faury refused to confirm this information. “We are thinking about the future of relations with Atos, it is a very important partner for us”, he limited himself to declaring.
Source: BFM TV
