To save the aeronautical soldier, the state will deploy massive resources. The government’s flight plan is to be released on Tuesday, possibly in Toulouse. The new measures should save tens of thousands of jobs.
After the automobile, aeronautics. It’s Tuesday that Emmanuel Macron or Bruo Le Maire will unveil the aeronautics support and recovery plan. The announcement could take place in Toulouse “rather with a subcontractor than with Airbus” believes an industrial source. Initially planned for July 1, this plan was accelerated by the executive in the face of the depth and violence of the air crisis that is throwing the industrial sector into the abyss. In April, Airbus delivered only fourteen aircraft against more than 70 before the crisis. The May figures to be released this Friday will be the same. It was therefore urgent to intervene.
Bercy and his minister Bruno Le Maire then put in full force to complete a titanic rescue plan for the sector. Deemed strategic for the sovereignty of France and Europe, essential for tricolor exports, aeronautics is the only job-creating industry in France. Behind the world leader Airbus, there is a whole sector that irrigates Occitania, of course, but also the regions of New Aquitaine, Center Loire Valley … which await announcements from the executive.
State releases heavy artillery
The crisis will be lasting and the recovery very gradual. At Airbus, we are counting on a two-year horizon, by 2022, to see the situation normalize. A much more severe trough than the 2008 financial crisis. In just a few days, Airbus saw undercover 80% of its turnover. Subcontractors are seeing orders from major contractors (who prefer to draw on their stocks) drop to zero. Suddenly, the state released heavy artillery to support an economic sector that weighs 300,000 direct jobs in France, including 100,000 in the Occitania region.
Investment fund of one billion euros, adapted partial unemployment scheme, export aid … (read page 3), French aeronautics have never seen such a mobilization of the means of the nation. Support that will be conditioned on two essential items for the Elysée and Bercy: accelerating on a less polluting aircraft and committing to a subcontracting charter to favor French industries.
In Toulouse ?
Toulouse or not Toulouse? Elysée or Bercy? Yesterday evening, the procedures for the presentation of the aeronautical recovery plan were still not decided by the executive. Yet in the Pink City, the answer seems obvious. The European capital of aeronautics and space, Toulouse is once again perfect for hosting presidential or ministerial speech in this episode so singular in the history of three-color aeronautics. The birthplace of Airbus created in 1970 in Blagnac, Occitania concentrates an undisputed firepower of industrialization and aeronautical research. Even Seattle, home of rival Boeing, recognizes Toulouse excellence.
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