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A monthly spotlight on market trends and insights.
Spotlight on the Aftermarket
 
 
Sean Broderick

As operators expand their go-green efforts, pushback against the use-and-discard pattern that underpins much of the new spare-parts business could grow.
 
Sean Broderick, Brian Bostick

Rising demand in some markets could affect the pace and scope of aircraft retirements, particularly in the narrowbody sector that supports domestic and intra-regional traffic benefiting from rising leisure-traffic flying.
 
Sean Broderick

Airlines returning aircraft to service should factor supply-chain delays into their planning as issues ranging from logistics slowdowns to problems getting aircraft into foreign repair stations threaten fleet ramp-ups, executives at Aviation Week’s MRO Europe conference said.
 
The in-service commercial fleet will grow by an annual rate of 2.5% in Europe, compared with the worldwide growth of 3.1%.
 
Henry Canaday

Czech Airlines Technics and LOT Aircraft Maintenance Services are planning for the future as maintenance demand begins to recover.
 
James Pozzi

The iconic jumbo jet has been retired at greater speed over the past 18 months as cost-conscious airline look to both downsize and renew their fleets.
 
Lindsay Bjerregaard

A roundup of aftermarket news announcements from MRO Europe 2021 in Amsterdam.
 
Lindsay Bjerregaard

A look at some of the new aftermarket products and technologies at the MRO Europe exhibition in Amsterdam.
 
The 2022 Preliminary Commercial Aviation Fleet and MRO Forecast reveals that MRO demand in Eastern and Western Europe combined will represent a value of $252 billion for the 2022-31 period.
 
 
 
Aviation Week Network editors will join Tim Obitt, president and CEO of the National Air Transportation Association, to discuss how business aviation and its infrastructure will play a critical role in the future of AAM.
 
Aviation Week Network is delighted to have hosted an exclusive, in-person Asia Aerospace Leadership Forum 2021 at Capella in Singapore on October 6, 2021. This event is designed to bring Singapore's Government, Aerospace and Defence, Air Transport and Finance/Leasing leadership together in order to provide a high-level strategic dialogue around the industry’s recovery.
 
Join Defense Editor Steve Trimble for a masterclass in recent advances in autonomy and a discussion of where the technology is headed.
 
Few airline leaders have steered their company through the crisis years of 2020 and 2021 as steadily and successfully as Walter Cho, the chairman and CEO at Korean Air.
 
 
DATA SPOTLIGHT
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The COVID-19 pandemic has not had a significant impact on the number of business aircraft in service. In fact, the number of business aircraft in-service for September 2021 is 3% higher than in September 2020 and 4% higher than in September 2019.
 
The JF-17 is now set to become the most widely operated Chinese combat aircraft in service with overseas customers by the end of 2023.
 
 
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At present Europe’s fleet of ASW-equipped MPAs amounts to 52 aircraft, the vast majority of which belong to two key families—the Breguet Atlantique and Lockheed P-3 Orion, which account for 85% of the aircraft currently in service.
 
Defense white papers are all too often filled with lofty aspirations later left unfulfilled. When Australia released its most recent such document in February 2016, it appeared to contain a similarly optimistic projection for the country’s defense budget over the next decade. 
 
Textron Aviation’s Beechcraft King Air 350 and 360 are twin-engine turboprops that are based on the company’s Model B300. While those airframes are based on that Textron model, the King Air 360 and 360ER were announced by the company on Aug. 4, 2020, as replacements for the 350i and 350iER, respectively.