#PARISAIRSHOW2023 - TRULY MEMORABLE

The Paris Air Show 2023 will be long as the India Air Show with record orders from Indian airlines. It was also the show when drones, air defence, electric, hydrogen and eVTOLs took centre stage

India dominated the Paris Air Show 2023—plain and simple. First, it was Indigo and then Air India. And that was a total of 970 narrow and widebody aircraft from the world's fastest-growing aviation market. for a second day on Tuesday, as Air India finalised a huge order for 470 planes from Airbus and Boeing.

While the commercial aspect of the air show is the glitz and glamour element, there was a renewed focus on defence following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. What is happening is that manufacturers are simply unable to meet the extraordinary demand for hardware thanks to the conflict that only exacerbated the already beleaguered supply chain issues. delivery deadlines are shattered even as production shortages, rising costs of parts, and scarcity of skilled labour in the wake of the pandemic continue to plague the sector.

With 125,000 square meters of exhibition space and around four lakh visitors during the week-long show, the world's largest aviation trade show, which alternates with Farnborough in the UK was back with a bang. The show returned to Le Bourget for the first time in four years after the pandemic forced the 2021 edition to be cancelled. The tentativeness of Farnborough 2022 was replaced with exuberance—travel has returned with a vengeance and the war in Ukraine means that defence spending is up, up and up.