Aeronautics: these companies that are resisting the crisis

In spring 2021, Tarmac Aerosave is welcoming around a hundred planes to its Tarbes site, compared to around sixty before the crisis.

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By: Pauline Gleize Follow

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Aeronautics has been hit hard by the economic crisis linked to Covid-19.

Despite everything, in the south-west of France, the center of the sector which had prospered in the wake of the Toulouse site of Airbus, a few companies are doing well. Here is the story of two of them.

One, which stores and maintains planes, was thus sheltered from the storm… The other has diversified its activity by manufacturing surgical masks. 

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"Aeronautics: these companies which are resisting the crisis", a large report by Pauline Gleize.

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