2025 has been another intense year for firefighting at Avincis in Europe where we provide this service in Spain, Portugal and Italy with both fixed wing and rotor wing aircraft. The summer season is the peak time for this activity, and from June to October we completed 10,100 flying hours and 52,600 drops, equivalent to 176,5 million litres of water across the three regions.

In Italy, where our Canadair CL-415 crews flew 4,800 hours, this was the second busiest season in the last five years – 2021 was the busiest with 6,000 hours flown. During this period, on average 12 aeroplanes a day were called out to support the fire brigade from the skies, reaching a peak of 17 aircraft tasked at the same time.

The Canadair fleet we operate in Italy also supports RescEU, which brings together aircraft to support areas in Europe overcome by wildfires. This year was the busiest in five years for these activations with a total of five missions to four different countries: Albania, Montenegro, Spain and Greece as well as one mission to Israel.

In Iberia (Spain and Portugal), our firefighting fleet of AS332 L2, B412s, B212s, B407s and CL-215s completed 5,300 flying hours and 33,200 drops, equivalent to about 57,5 million litres of water. It was also the second busiest year (after 2022) in the last five years for the Spanish team. However, August hit a record for being the most active month in five years, with 2,410 flying hours completed. This was mostly due to the severe fires in the northwest and north of Spain, which our B412 fleet played an important role in helping to suppress.