The president of Airbus España, Alberto Gutierrez, said Thursday that they hope to negotiate an amicable settlement with the Ministry of Defence and Indra for the european consortium to go back to the Spanish project of the program of future eurocaza and the defense system that brings known as the FCAS (Future Combat Air System), which will replace the Eurofighter.
The trustees, in a meeting with the media, has admitted that it has lost the “close relationship” that had kept Airbus with the Ministry of Defence, following the decision adopted by the Government in functions the past month of September to choose Indra -owned a 18,71% by the State – to the detriment of Airbus as a “company coordinator” in Spain of the programme of future eurocaza.
Gutierrez is confident that, after the formation of the new Government, to rebuild relationships and return to Airbus its rightful role in this project. What has been done after referring to the entry of Spain as the third member of this european programme, which was signed at the air show in Paris last June. In this sense, he remembered the ten years employed in maturing the concept of this future combat system, the other three since the launch of the idea by France and Germany and three more developing the SimLab of FCAS with the Spanish Army of the Air. “Airbus needs to Spain and Spain you need to Airbus,” he warned the officer.
in Addition, it has stressed that it does not consider that the proposal of the City of Barcelona to remove the flights from the airport of El Prat with alternative rail, as the air bridge with Madrid, poses a threat to the sector or for your company, but an opportunity to work “to sack” in the electrification and hybridization of the aircraft, because the things “have not done well enough”.
The president of Airbus in Spain has stressed that “there is a growing pressure” on the aviation sustainability on the part of the authorities, but that is an opportunity for further work in model aviation more environmentally friendly, whether they are powered by electricity, hybrid form, or with fuels more environmentally friendly.
For his part, the chairman of the division of commercial airplanes, Airbus in Spain, Manuel Huertas, has highlighted that “climate change is not a threat, but a reality”, and has stated that the fact that the aviation sector represents only between 2% and 3% of the emissions at the global level “does not relieve you of responsibility.”
Furthermore, the president of Airbus Spain, has explained that the company will attempt to address the suspension of the manufacture of the 737 MAX the best possible way”. The stoppage of production affects directly the factories of Airbus in Spain, specifically those of El Puerto de Santa María (Cádiz) and Tablada (Seville), as well as some ancillaries such as Alestis, who manufacture some part or piece that used the gadgets of the american firm. As well, spokespersons for the aerospace sector andalusian amount of three hundred jobs affected in these factories by the stoppage of the production of the 737 MAX.
