At the Bourget fair, the French air and space sector emphasizes recruitment and training

The International Aeronautical and Espace fair opened its doors on Monday at Le Bourget (Seine-Saint-Denis). The opportunity, for the sector in France, to amplify its efforts on employment, with 25,000 recruitments scheduled for 2025.

It is the largest worldwide meeting of aeronautics and space organized every two years.
The 55th Bourget Fair begins on Monday June 16. About 300,000 visitors are expected throughout the week, professionals only during the first four days, before opening to the general public on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Almost half of the 2,400 exhibitors present are French, large groups or simple SMEs, and the sector does not seem to know the crisis.

So far everything is fine for the French aeronautical and space sector, while the threat of American customs duties hovers, which could penalize dozens of Boeing suppliers installed in France.

Guillaume Faury, president of Airbus and Gifas, which brings together industrialists in the sector, seems more worried by the risks of increased tax in France in the next finance bill. “We are growing, we hire, we increase the surface of our industrial activity in France, he explains. This sector is vital for France. When you have something vital, you take care of it and protect it. “

The sector, which claims 222,000 employees, provides 25,000 recruitments this year. And the Bourget fair is an ideal opportunity to contact young people, especially through the Métiers plane, a gigantic space of 3,000 m2. “Human resources is the nerve of war, so we must recruit and train, Esimes Guillaume Bourdeloux, director general of the show. We will find all this on the trades plane, where around twenty aeronautical and space trades will be presented. “

With the aim of also managing to feminize the sector further, a hundred companies will even participate on a special day on Friday to attract young girls to engineering and technician.