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Airbus: for the government, the objective is to see "the least possible dry layoffs"

2020-07-02T19:53:48.995Z


Jean-Baptiste Djebbari leaves it to the "responsibility" of the boss of Airbus to avoid massive job cuts. 5,000 are threatened in France


The crisis in aeronautics is major and painful. Yesterday, the European group Airbus formalized its desire to cut 15,000 jobs to cushion the shock, including 5,000 in France.

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Invited this Wednesday morning on the set of BFMTV, the Secretary of State for Transport Jean-Baptiste Djebbari tried to count the jobs that could be saved. " If you set up the partial activity, you save 1,500 jobs, he estimated, and you save 500 more by developing the low-carbon aircraft ." The government now wishes to avoid "dry layoffs" as much as possible and will encourage Airbus to favor, for example, voluntary departure plans. The secretary of state also clarified that it was too early to say whether site closures were being considered.

"Airbus has an extremely responsible boss," argued Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, referring to the Frenchman Guillaume Faury. The latter, interviewed during a conference call with journalists on the reaction of the French executive, admitted that he did not expect " much support in this type of situation, even if we work closely " with the governments concerned.

Interior lines: Djebbari closes on the rule of "2h30"

State aid to the aviation sector, and in particular to Air France, has enabled it to request environmental compensation. The French company will thus have to stop operating on the domestic lines which have an equivalence in train of less than 2:30 - " it is the sense of history ". A rule that Jean-Baptiste Djebbari does not intend to extend. " If you remove lines [from Paris] to Aurillac, Brive [-la-Gaillarde] or Rodez, you dry up territories ," he argued. 2:30, it's robust and rational ”.

At the same time, some airports will have to rethink their future. This is particularly the case of Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle, where the creation of a fourth terminal is envisaged. " The project will be requested, " admitted the secretary of state. As for the Nantes airport expansion project, which follows the abandonment of the Notre-Dame-des-Landes project, Jean-Baptiste Djebbari wants to believe it. We have a saturation problem at Nantes airport. We have planned an environmentally sober project. I think it's a good project, which corresponds to the territory. "

"Valérie Pécresse can afford to pay"

Finally, Jean-Baptiste Djebbari spoke of the passing of arms between the government and the president of the Île-de-France region, Valérie Pécresse. The latter threatened to stop paying SNCF and RATP, which provide public transport services, from July 8.

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" Valérie Pécresse can afford to pay on July 8, " said Jean-Baptiste Djebbari. It is his responsibility, even if we remain open to discussion. I don't want users to be taken hostage, and the idea of ​​increasing the Navigo Pass by 20 euros [an option brandished by Valérie Pécresse, editor's note] is a political argument ». The region and the state have a week to get along.

Source: lefigaro

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