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2023: a year of rebound for the aerospace industry

View all data from the field: sales figures, exports, research and development, jobs and training.


210,000
Workforce
in 2023
70.2
Billions of Euros
Global revenues
65.1
Billions of Euros
Orders

    Industry challenges

    From top to bottom, the aerospace industry continues to grow in terms of jobs, investment, research and development.

    Competitiveness

    The high performance of the aerospace industry, in both technical and economic aspects, is due in part to its control over the supply chain and its quality throughout the value chain (from the buyer to the SME ...

    Environment

    Confronting climate change, designing quieter and more efficient airplanes, developing innovative satellites to observe the Earth’s system: our sector is using its skills to their utmost to take action for the ...

    Innovation

    The aerospace sector is a leader in innovation. Our systems are rich in technology and reveal the creativity of the many players in our sector. To maintain this level of excellence, the aerospace industry remai...

    Careers & Training

    The member companies of GIFAS employ 188,000 people in their aerospace activities in France. ...

    International

    The French aerospace sector is a leader in Europe and in the world. GIFAS protects this number-one status that enables our country and its industry to assert itself on the international stage....

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        Aero Excellence, for aerospace & defence
        A unique standard of Operational Excellence, recognized by the entire Aerospace and Defence community.
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      • Programs

        Towards carbon neutral air travel

        To coincide with the 54th Paris Air Show, Gifas has published a new brochure entitled "Towards low-carbon air travel", providing a summary of the work being done by air transport players on the subject of low-carbon travel.Visitors to the Paris Air Show were able to visit the Paris Air Lab to discover all the commitments and the very wide range of decarbonisation solutions.
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      • Documents

        53rd International Paris Air Show report

        Find the 2019 key Figures
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