Like other modes, air transport does not create the need for mobility – it addresses it. Air transport creates wealth both directly, like any other economic activity, and also indirectly through its contribution to global trade.
Air transport
The Air Transport sector contributed 17 billion euros to GDP in 2006. As a major consumer of intermediate goods, it automatically bolsters other activity sectors.
According to the French statistics agency INSEE, the air transport sector (airlines, airports, ground services and the departments of the DGAC civil aviation authority) directly employ 128,000 people in France in 2005.
Air transport pays a large range of taxes and levies on its operations, notably to cover security requirements. It finances its infrastructure costs directly.
