Aircraft
Services To Lead $15 Trillion Commercial Market Over 20 Years
Persistent strength in passenger and cargo traffic to drive need for 42,700 airplane deliveries, says Boeing

Boeing projects that commercial aircraft services will generate $8.8 trillion out of a $15 trillion market over the next 20 years, as balancing growth between advanced and emerging economies, innovation and productivity, and increasing aircraft replacement needs become even more pronounced in the coming years. According to the company’s 2018 Current Market Outlook, released Tuesday, the world economy will see an average 2.8 percent GDP growth while passenger numbers and cargo traffic measured in revenue ton kilometers each rise by 4.2 percent. Meanwhile, as load factors continue their upward climb—the measure of average aircraft loads rose from 76 percent to 81 percent over the past five years—passenger traffic measured in revenue passenger kilometers (RPKs) will increase by 4.7 percent.