WARSAW: France’s Airbus Helicopters plans to directly hire 1,250 people in Poland by 2020 as well as create additional 2,500 jobs in the sector in connection if it wins a tender to deliver 70 helicopters for the Polish army, company’s chief executive Guillaume Faury said at a press conference on Monday.
“We’re talking about 1,250 direct jobs and 2,500 indirect jobs,” Faury said. “We are committed to being in Poland in the long-term, this is not an offset-like approach, we are in a home country”, he said.
In an ongoing helicopter tender the government decided last week to test H225M Caracal machines produced by the French company. If Airbus gets the deal the company will launch a servicing line for the helicopters in the city of Lodz, central Poland, Faury said.
