• C0~11MISSION of the EUROPEAN COMMUNITlHS Brussels, 9 July 1976• SED (76) 2(-)57 l -~' ., rTI-IE EUROPEAN AEROSPACE INDUSTRY POSITION MTI FIGURES i I l t ~ 1 1 l I '. ~· 1 t I! . !' : ~ .' Ii. ! MAY 1976 ,; I i • III/397 (16-E ... ..1.1.- PMS ~rig.: F Foreword This document groups together the principal statistics on the aerospace sector in Europe and the United States available to the relevant departments of the Com miss ion. The Directorate-General of Industrial and Technological Affairs has been gathering and processing these statistics since 1972; its first communication to the Council, d;· .ed 19 July 1972 (document COM(72)850), already included a statistical appendix on the position of the aerospace sector (market and production facilities). In subsequent years1 it became possible to carry out a more detailed analysis, owing, in particular, to the cooperation of the aviation industry associations in each country, which actively helped the departtnents of the Commission in an annual survey of fi.rms in the sector. Finally, the Commission's con1muntcation to the Council dated 3 October 1975 (document COM(75)475) on an action plan for European aviation also provided statistics on the position a~ prospects of the sector. 1 Documents: SEC(73)813 dated 1 ~fu.rch 1973 III/243/73 dated 31 December 1973 v SEC(75)1539 dated 23 April 1975 v - iii _PMS 111/397 (7 6-E Orlg.: F CONTENTS I • ., THE MARKET A. Civil air traffic and the civil aircraft market 1. Civil air r,-affic 1 a. Scheduled traffic 1 b.. Nonscheduled traffic 5 2. Civil aircraft rnarket 6 a. Number of airc:raft ordered and ·in· service 6 b. Aircra in service and on order 8 c. Long-haul aircraft 12 d .. Short and medium-haul aircraft 14 e. Ma.rket for European-built civil aircraft 16 B.. Helicopter market 1. Military helicopter market 17 2. Civil helicopter market 18 3. Market distribution ,19 C. General and executive aircraft market 20 D. Milita!I ~ircraft market 22 E .. International trade in civil aircraft 2.5 II... PRODUCTION FACILITIES A. Sector and subsectors 1. Sales 27 2. Labour force 41 B. Firms 1. Sales, value added and staff numbers 43 2. Helicopter manufacturers 47 3. Light and executive aircraft manufacturers 48 4. Airborne equipment firms 50 FOOTNOTES 5} III/397 /7 6-E ... 1 ... PMS Orig.: F I. THE MARKET ·... A. Civil air traffic and the civil aircraft market 1. Civil air traffic 1 a) Scheduled traffic In 1973, 1974 and 1975 (estimates), the airlines of the 131 rnen1ber states of the ICAO* produced the follovling numbers of passenger­ kilometr-:s (in thousands of millions) on scheduled domestic and internati·>nal services: Table 1 (excluding USSR) Change (including USSR) Change compared with compared with previous year previous year 1973 520 + 11.8 618 + 10.4 1974 546 + s.o 654 + s.B 1 560 + 2.6 676 + o4 Growth rates were very low compared with those of the period 1965-75, in which the annual average growth was 11% (excluding USSR statistics). In 1974, 47 countries whose unit airline traffic exceeded 1000 million passenger-kilometres together accounted for 97•2% of the total. US airlines accounted for 40·1% of the traffic, followed by the USSR with 16·6%; the UK was ousted from third place by Japan. As in the past, Community airlln~s made up about 14%. * Excluding China (People's Republic). 1 Footnotes at end of document. Titey are preceded by a conversion table of national currency units into European units of account (u.a. ). _ _PMS III/397 (16-E 2 Orig.: F Traffic referred to djstance was as follows in 1974: Table 2 Passenger-kilometres including the following produced on scheduled on international don1estic and international services (millions) %of total services (millions) United States 262,185 45,248 17 USSR 108,577 5,360 5 japan 27,797 10t970 39 UK 27,775 ) 25,229 91 France 21 '745 ) 16,45? ?6 West Germany 12,473 ) 11,005 88 Italy 11,377 ) 90,611 9,180 81 Netherlands 9,389 ) 9,341 99 Belgium 3,975 ) .3, 975 100 Denmark 2,229 ) 1,?91 80 Ireland 1,648 ) 1 ,619 98 .,,! Canada 24,605 11,193 45 I l Australia 17 '123 9,546 56 i ) l Spain 10,105 7,260 72 t ' j ~ Brazil 8,559 .3,909 46 Switzerland 7,089 7,056 99 Mexico 5,957 2,660 45 South Air Lea 5,376 3,510 65 India 4,926 .3, 126 63 The Community is thus the world's third largest passenger air transport operator, just behind the USSR and far ahead of Japan. _ _PMS III/397 /76-E 3 Orig.: F In general, growth tn terms of passenger-kilometres ill 1974 was less on international than on domestic services (5•5 against 6·1%); the percentage changes from 1973 to 1974 were as follows for the countries mentioned: Table 3 International Domestic USA 8.1 + 2.6 UK 1.8 0,3 France + 9·5 + 12.2 West Germany + 10o1 + 32.1 Netherlands + 1.9 Italy + 0.2 + 11.8 Passenger traffic referred to distance of the member airlines of the AJ?.sociation of European Airlines (AEA)* has varied as follows since 19702: Table 4 thousands of millions of Eassenger-kilometres (scheduled services) Intra-Euroeean Domestic Intercontinental Total 1970 22.0 ?.4 44.6 74.,0 1971 24.9 8.2 48.0 81.1 1972 27.4 8.9 58.8 95.1 1973 ,31.0 10.1 72.5 113.6 1974 ,31.8 10.5 ?5.6 11?.9 Of the 10,500 million passenger-kilometres of domestic traffic, 5o3 were accounted for by French domestic traffic and 2.5 by British domestic traffic. * ABA: Community airlines plus Austrian Airlines, Finnair, Iberia, Icelandair, JAT, Olympic, SAS, Swissair, TAP, TIIY; it is estimated that 76•7% of the traffic of the AEA airlines was carried by Community airlines. III/397 /76-E ... 4 _PivfS Orig.: F The annual percc.nl·af;e Yariatio.ns in traffic were as follows: Table 5 • Intra-Euro2ean Domestic Intercontinental . Total 1971-72 + 10.1 + Bo9 + 22.5 + 17.3 1972-73 + 12.f~ + 1 ;.8 + 23.4 + 19o4 1973-74 + 2o6 + 3·5 + 4.3 + 3.8 average 1970-74 + 9o6 + 9.1 + 14.1 + 12.3 The breakrf0wn by type of traffic varied as follows from 1970 to 1974: Table 6 Intra-EuroEean · Domestic Intercontinental 1970 29.7 10 .. 0 60.3 100 1974 26.9 8.9 64.2 100 For comparison, domestic and international traffic in the United States varied as follows: Table 7 (percent) Domestic (U .$.A.) International (U.S. A.) Total (u.s.l.) 1971-72 + 11.2 + 18oO + 12. 1972-73 + 6.5 + 5.2 + 6. 1973-74 + 2.6 8.1 + . o. It will be seen that traffic on the European airlines continued to grow slowly in 1974, whereas United States traffic remained steady overall although international traffic fell sharply. However, the combined intra-European and domestic traffic of the European airlines (AEA) in 1974 amounted to less than 20% of United States domestic· traffic. On the other hand, the intercontinental traffic of the ABA airlines was equivalent to 167% of United States international traffic. _ S _PMS III/397 /76-E Orig.: F b) Nonscheduled traffic The estimates of the nonscheduled traffic of the airlines of ICAO member countries in 1974 (excluding the USSR and the People's Republic of China) are based on statistics from 47 nonscheduled flight operators whose traffic is assumed to represent 75% of the total nonscheduled flight operators' traffic and on statistics for the nonscheduled traffic of 165 airlines providing scheduled services. In 1973~ nonscheduled services accounted for a total of 114,600 milliov passenger-kilometres (equivalent to 22% of scheduled traffic), falling in 1974 to 104,800 million passenger-kilometres (equivalent to 19•1% of scheduled traffic). The traffic for the main countries was as follows in 1974: (millions of passenger-kilometres) Table 8 I Nonscheduled traffic a) Nonscheduled flight operators b) Scheduled flight operato~~~·: Belgium 597 367 Denmark: 5,453 n.d. France 689 262 ~est Germany 8,336 285 Netherlands 3,012 1,596 UK n.d.(4) .7,052 USA 15,098 17,912 TOTAL 48,224 43,676 j (for 47 operators) (ICAO estimates from ;. the figures of 165 l operators) _ _PMS III/397 /76-E 6 Orig.: F Overall figures for nonscheduled traffic for 1975 are not yet available~ however, the change in transatlantic traffic (scheduled and nonscheduled) from 1974 to 1975 was as follows: Table 9 Number of passengers 1974 %of market 1975 %of market Change 1974-75 IATA scheduled 9, 3ii5,000 73 8,700,000 71 -·1% IATA charter 1,143,000 9 1, 250,000 10 +9% Non-IATA scheduled 2?5,000 2 300,000 2 - 1,7% Non-lATA charter 2,01:.0,000 16 2,050,000 17 The 47~ decline on the total. is due to the fall in scheduled IAT A traffic. 2. Civil aircraft market a) The nutnber of aircraft ordered and in service in recent years has varied as follows: Table 10 Ordered Sales as at In service• before in in in 31 December on 31 Dec. in Sept. 1973 1973 1974 1975 1975 1974 1975 Long-haul Ooncorde 9 - - - 9 - - Boeing 7CJf 722 9 14 4 749 638 633 Boeing 11-7 219 31 29 22 301 236 238 008 556 - - - 556 504 491 DC 10.30/ - 92 20 14 126 86 99 40 - Qther 336, - - - 336 nd nd long-haul - - - - - (5) 63 40 2077 1464-- .