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315.000

This is the expected number of visitors this year, including 140,000 professionals. The organizers expect 2,260 exhibitors, up 5% from 2013, which will be a record. Almost half are foreign and 47 countries will be represented.

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It is, in hectares, the size of the living room.

150 billion

This is the total amount in dollars of orders earned by the entire aviation sector during the 2013 edition of the show. Airbus had 39.3 billion in firm orders. With buying intentions, total orders earned by the European group had risen to $ 68.7 billion. For its part, Boeing had received firm orders worth $ 38 billion and ordering intentions valued at just over $ 22.2 billion, for a total of $ 60.2 billion.

3000000000

This is the level of passenger traffic in 2013. As a reminder, it was 100 million passengers in 1960. This growth is confirmed for the next 15 years, believes the firm Argon Consulting, specializing in air, whereby the threshold of 6 billion passengers should be reached in 2030.

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This is the level of greenhouse gas emissions generated by commercial aviation. The latter aims carbon neutral by 2020 and a 50% reduction in CO2 emissions by 2050, particularly thanks to biofuels. A few months before the COP21 climate conference, the sector will explain, as part of an exhibition called “The sky of tomorrow”, how the new technologies it develops are directed towards the protection of the environment.