Paris Airshow Canceled in Blow to Aerospace Recovery

Visitors walk at the static display area during the last day of the 51st Paris Air Show at Le Bourget airport near Paris on June 21, 2015. Pascal Rossignol/Reuters

PARIS—The Paris Airshow has been canceled for the first time since World War II, raising questions about the speed of the aerospace industry’s recovery from the COVID-19 crisis.

Organizers said Europe’s largest industrial showcase, which attracts more than 300,000 people every other June in alternation with Britain’s Farnborough Airshow, wouldn’t go ahead next year because of the pandemic’s “unprecedented impact” on aerospace.