Global Market Forecast

Airbus’ Global Market Forecast (GMF) for 2019-2038 offers a forward-looking view of the air transport sector’s evolution – accounting for factors such as demographic and economic growth, tourism trends, oil prices, development of new and existing routes, and ultimately highlighting demand for aircraft covering the full spectrum of sizes from 100 seats to the very largest aircraft over 400 seats. 

Entitled “Cities, Airports & Aircraft,” this new forecast – which serves as a reference for airlines, airports, investors, governments, non-governmental agencies and others – anticipates that air traffic will grow at 4.3% annually, requiring some 39,200 new passenger and dedicated freighter aircraft over the next 20 years.

For the 2019-2038 Global Market Forecast, Airbus addresses aircraft segmentation in the Small (S), Medium (M), Large (L) categories to better reflect the use of aircraft within and between market segments.

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