The aeronautics sector in Haute-Garonne, where Airbus and many subcontractors sit, lost nearly 10% of its salaried workforce and 33% of its turnover in 2020, a direct consequence of the global pandemic, unveiled on Tuesday. the CCI and the Banque de France.
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This "
violent shock
" in the aeronautics sector has had a strong impact on economic activity in Occitania, helping to make it the most affected region of France at the industrial level, with a 16% drop in business turnover.
“
After a record year 2019, 2020 is set to reverse record
” for the aeronautics industry, said Philippe Robardey, president of the Toulouse and Haute-Garonne Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
The slowdown in air traffic "
strikes our territory at the heart of its industrial asset, the aeronautical sector
," he added.
The decline in activity affected both companies in the industrial sector (-33.4%) and service activities related to aeronautics (-28.6%), according to the report, which points to a loss of 9.9 % of salaried workforce in the sector, with temporary contracts in the first place.
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In 2021, "
the industrial outlook should be reversed, with forecasts rebounding 11.8%, but associated services would not experience this favorable turnaround in growth and would suffer from a second year of decline in their turnover. (-4.1%).
Jobs, for their part, would contract again, by 6.1%,
”said Mr. Robardey.
For months, aeronautical employees have been mobilizing regularly to protest against the various social plans that threaten their jobs.
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"
The recovery of the sector will depend on the resumption of air traffic and the solvency of airlines,
" said Stéphane Latouche, regional director of the Banque de France Occitanie.
He underlines that since the start of the crisis, “
all capacity investments have been reduced, especially on large planes.
(...) But the aeronautics industry has managed to preserve its research and development effort, as well as its ability to imagine the aircraft of the future
”.
