PARIS 2001: France's aero salon a sales shootout
The 2001 Paris Air Show was no epic in terms of new models unveiled and mega-developments launched.

The 2001 Paris Air Show was no epic in terms of new models unveiled and mega-developments launched. It was nonetheless an exceptionally businesslike event, achieving a record tally for announced sales of some $40 billion. Even so, this grand tally was somewhat down from the $52 billion sales bonanza at last year’s Farnborough Air Show and some chose to interpret this as evidence of the long-anticipated cooling in demand.

No fewer than 126,000 trade visitors attended this year’s salon at Le Bourget Airport, in addition to 186,000 members of the public on the event’s three non-trade days. Forty different countries were represented among the exhibitors and official delegations. There were 199 aircraft on static display and 70 in the daily flying displays.

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