Aircraft
Oliver Wyman Gauges Covid’s Damage to Future Airliner Fleets
A 10-year fleet forecast by Oliver Wyman projects a 40 percent shortfall in widebody production compared with previous projections.

Analysis performed by the Oliver Wyman consulting firm for a ten-year fleet and MRO market forecast revealed that Covid-19 will affect the size of the global airliner fleet beyond 2031, following a decade of continuing restrained growth and consolidation. The report, released Thursday, shows that although the world’s fleet will reach 36,500 in ten years, that figure represents “a far cry” from the more than 39,000 airplanes forecasters expected to serve the industry in 2030.


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