Air Transport and Defense Boost GIFAS, while Bizav Stagnates
Association expects to carry last year's growth into this year.

Business aviation and helicopters represent the low points for the French aerospace industry, according to the recently released GIFAS results for 2017. While those markets have not recovered as much as the air transport sector, “steadily, we see the market going a little bit up,” said GIFAS president Eric Trappier, chairman and CEO of Dassault Aviation. In the helicopter segment, the weakness of the oil-and-gas market has still weighed on the business, even if some other segments, like search-and-rescue, police and security, aeromedical, and VIP, have compensated.