The Eurofighter program will secure 26,000 jobs until 2060 and will contribute close to 1.7 billion euros to Spanish GDP, according to a study by PwC, financed by Airbus, on the economic impact of the Halcón and Quadriga contracts in the country.
The study, together with the technical support of ITP Aero, and carried out independently by PwC over a period of six months, estimates that, during the manufacturing phase (2020-2030) and the maintenance phase (2023-2060), the Halcón and Quadriga programs will create an average of 657 direct, indirect and induced jobs per year, reaching a total of 26,000 positions in 2060.
This is equivalent to a total annual impact on employment of 2.7% of direct jobs in the Spanish aerospace sector. The main autonomous communities benefiting from this activity are the Community of Madrid, the Basque Country, Castilla-La Mancha and Andalusia.
It is expected that both contracts for the Eurofighter Tranche 4 -the most advanced version of this multirole fighter- will contribute close to 1,700 million euros to Spanish GDP, of which the manufacture and maintenance of the Falcon will generate approximately 1,500 million and the production of the Quadriga the 200 million remaining.
In total, the Eurofighter program secures more than 100,000 jobs in Europe, boosted by state-of-the-art aircraft such as the Tranche 4, as well as, in the future, by technological advances within Eurofighter development.
Signed in June 2022, the Halcón contract consists of the acquisition of 20 latest-generation Eurofighter aircraft to replace the F-18 fleet that the Air Force operates in the Canary Islands.
The Falcon program followed the Quadriga contract, signed in 2020, to deliver 38 new Eurofighter aircraft to the German Air Force (Luftwaffe), making Germany the country with the highest number of orders for Europe’s largest defense program.
With the Halcón programme, the Spanish Eurofighter fleet will increase to 90 aircraft, with the first delivery scheduled for 2026. Both Quadriga and Halcón guarantee production of the new Tranche 4 Eurofighter -currently the most modern combat aircraft built in Europe- until 2030, with a useful life beyond 2060.
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