Analysis: Low-Key Paris Air Show In The Wake Of Shock Crash

Signing ceremony in Paris

ANA Holdings president and CEO Koji Shibata (center-left) and Airbus EVP commercial sales Benoît de Saint-Exupéry (center-right) with ANA cabin crew at a signing ceremony in Paris for more A320 family aircraft.

Credit: Karen Walker/ATW
From a commercial airliner standpoint, it had been anticipated that the 2025 Paris Air Show would be a low-key affair relative to the gangbuster pre-COVID days when large contracts for multiple aircraft were signed amid much media fanfare. Expectations, therefore, were somewhat dampened as...
Karen Walker

Karen Walker is Air Transport World Editor-in-Chief and Aviation Week Network Group Air Transport Editor-in-Chief. She joined ATW in 2011 and oversees the editorial content and direction of ATW, Routes and Aviation Week Group air transport content.

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