Rotorcraft
Airbus Helicopters Posts Big Order Jump in 2021
Despite sales uptick, Airbus Helicopters CEO Bruno Even warns that a pre-pandemic market recovery is still two to three years away.

Airbus Helicopters posted a 40 percent order increase in 2021 over 2020, but a considerable portion of that was driven by public sector stimulus, and CEO Bruno Even warned that it would be two to three years before order volume recovered to pre-pandemic levels. He added that the offshore energy market remains largely stalled for both super-medium and heavy helicopters and “will take time to recover.” Nevertheless, Even characterized 2021 as a “turning point” and said the company would onboard 500 new employees in 2022, mainly in engineering to support military programs. “We’re seeing the first signs of recovery” and “the end of the low point,” he said Wednesday morning. 


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