The annual job survey completed every May for the preceding year at EuroAirport has produced for 2009 results with a mixed picture although employment is on the rise again.

In fact, the 91 net jobs created in the survey period (+1.4%) largely come from the aircraft maintenance and systems sector. In this area, 375 new jobs (+17%) were generated in 2009 making this sector a centre of excellence at EuroAirport, employing a total of 2,566 people corresponding to around 40% of all employees working on the airport site. The new Zone 6bis generated almost 800 jobs in two years.

The freight and express freight sectors come in second with 1,055 employees (-2.8%) ahead of the airline companies with 813 people, this business showing a steep decline in comparison to 2008 (-20%).

Seventy-seven different nationalities are represented on the airport site, headed by the French (4,065 or 62%), then the Swiss (1,026 or 16%), Germans (637 or 10%) and British (167 or 2%).

Of the 126 companies that took part in the survey, 74 are situated in the Swiss customs zone and 52 in the French customs zone. The Swiss companies in the Swiss customs zone employ 5,260 (80%) people, of whom 2,832 are French  (54% of the workforce). The companies in the French customs zone have a workforce of 1,306 (20%). The French companies only employ 73 non-French citizens, or 6% of their employees.

With regard to the total number of employees, 4,191 (64%) are resident in France, 1,622 (25%) in Switzerland and 422 (6%) in Germany. Communities with the greatest number of EuroAirport employees are Saint-Louis and Mulhouse in France with 402 and 374 people, Basel and Allschwil in Switzerland with 717 and 120 people, and Lörrach in Germany with 78 people.