AIRBUS FORECASTS: NEED FOR OVER 39.000 NEW AIRCRAFT IN THE NEXT 20 YEARS

“The 4% annual growth reflects the resilient nature of aviation, weathering short term economic shocks and geo-political disturbances. Economies thrive on air transportation. People and goods want to connect – said at Spazio-News Magazine Christian Scherer, Airbus Chief Commercial Officer and Head of Airbus International -. Globally, commercial aviation stimulates GDP growth and supports 65 million livelyhoods, demonstrating the immense benefits our business brings to all societies and global trade.”

The world’s passenger and freighter aircraft fleet is set to more than double from today’s nearly 23.000 to almost 48.000 by 2038 with traffic growing at 4.3% annually, also resulting in a need for 550.000 new pilots and 640.000 new technicians.

By 2038, of the forecast 47.680 fleet, 39.210 are new and 8.470 remain from today. By updating fleets with latest generation fuel efficient aircraft such as the A220, A320neo Family, the A330neo and the A350, Airbus believes it will largely contribute to the progressive decarbonisation of the air transport industry and the objective of carbon neutral growth from 2020 while connecting more people globally.

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