mal parce qu'on ne trouve pas de place pour ses bagages, à cause de passagers qui sont au fond de l’appareil et qui ont déposé les leurs à votre empla- cement : c'est devenu courant. SITA travaille beau- coup sur ce dossier, afin que des contôles faciaux nous permettent de rejoindre rapidement notre avion,, mais il y a de fortes résistances. D’autre part, le contrôle des passagers dans les aéroports repré- sente un important business, de l’ordre de 800 mil- lions d’euros par an rien qu’en France, et cela fait vivre beaucoup de monde. Comme on a besoin d’as- sistance dans un aéroport, et non de se retrouver en face de machines, il ne reste plus qu’à faire évoluer le travail des agents au sol vers la creation d’une meilleure fluidité, afin que le transit à l’aéroport cesse d’être une course d’obstacles. On n'a pas trouvé de solution pour rendre le système à nouveau fluide. lass & Relax Lifestyle Magazine: Jean-Louis Baroux, the World Connect by APG revolves around this com- plex question: is it politics or economics that deter- mines air travel development?
because air transport has become the target of the environmentalists. Governments, which are more or less riding this wave, are putting ecology first and hiding what they can. Of course, we're only talking about the West here, Europe and to some extent the United States. That's around 850 million of the planet's 8 billion inhabi- tants, 7 billion of whom have no other concern than using planes and developing their economy! The fact remains that airlines have to remain profitable: France has invested 7 billion in the Air France-KLM pairing, and Germany disbursed 4 billion during Covid: these are political decisions. Class & Relax Lifestyle Magazine : Are we too spoilt in Europe to accept the dogma of polluting air trans- port without asking ourselves more questions? Air transport is a way for states to assert their presence and their power. The forei- gn affairs network establish this presence in the world and the support is an airline.
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Jean-Louis Baroux: For me, the answer is very clear- cut: it's politics that drives air transport develop- ment. Having said that, if we look at the history of civil aviation, it has always been state-run at the out- set, but this is less and less the case in the showca- se. When the Gulf airlines claim that they are inde- pendent, this is not true: they are supported by their states. The same goes for American airlines, which are sub- sidised. Are all airlines subsidised? And why not? The question is, why is this being hidden? Perhaps
Jean-Louis Baroux: Yes, probably. You only have to look at our own countries. People have covered all their basic needs: they're unhappy, they no longer have any desires. Class & Relax Lifestyle Magazine: As a multinatio- nal, you are fortunate to have a global vision at APG. Is economic development, which owes a great deal to air travel, in danger of losing momentum in Europe? Meanwhile, Ethiopian Airlines is expanding considerably in Africa and around the world.
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