Airbus to hire nearly 4,000 people in Poland by 2020

Airbus Helicopters is planning to create 1,250 "direct" and 2,500 "indirect" jobs in Poland until 2020, Guillaume Faury, the chief executive of Airbus Helicopters announced 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 added. According to the the French company's representatives, if it wins the tender to deliver helicopters for the Polish army (which is likely to happen), Airbus will launch a servicing line for H225M helicopters in Łódź. Pierre Buhler, French ambassador to Poland believes that the Polish defense sector will benefit from choosing Airbus, as the vehicles will be manufactured using supplies from Polish firms. The Ministry of Defense has selected Eurocopter Caracal EC725 manufactured by Airbus to be "further verfied". It means that Poland will probably buy 70 helicopters from the French producer, rather than the British-Italian AgustaWestland AW149 or American Black Hawk S-70i, the media reported recently.