The government’s plan to revive the aeronautical sector hit hard by the crisis due to the coronavirus, which will be unveiled this week, will have counterparts in terms of location of jobs, Secretary of State for Transport Jean-Baptiste Djebbari said on Sunday.
“What we did for the automobile“, that is to say a support plan in the amount of eight billion euros, “We will do it during the week” next on aeronautics, either “A sectoral support plan” of several billion euros, said Jean-Baptiste Djebbari on LCI.
With three objectives: to restart air traffic, to ensure that the immediate and massive effects of the crisis have been absorbed and to revive activity with the aim “Come out stronger than we got in”.
In terms of the environment for example, “This means that groups such as Airbus, Safran or Thales will be able to produce the hybrid aircraft in 2027, in 2035 the” green “aircraft: this is the industrial challenge for the next ten years and this requires invest a lot now to be ahead of the Chinese, ahead of the Americans, in ten years ”.
It also requires “To have strong counterparts on the location of employment in France, in Europe, which we ask them” (to industrialists), he added. “It is obvious that if the French State, if the European Union invests very strongly to support employment first, and then creates advantages for the next ten years, we ask that part of the activity is localized, when it is new, or relocated “when possible, and that the industry takes” guarantees for employment “, said Jean-Baptiste Djebbari.
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