Just ahead of Paris air show, Boeing Commercial published its yearly update of the Current Market Outlook (CMO) for the next 20 years of commercial aircraft market (2015-2034).
I have just compared the figures for passenger aircraft of the last two years’ CMOs:
CMO 2015 vs 2014 comparison.
Some comments to it:
- You can see that the total number of new aircraft delivered has slightly increased from 35,930 to 37,130, a 3.3%, which is consistent with the 4.9% traffic increase (1) that Boeing predicts (2).
- The volume (Bn$) increases by a larger percentage, 6% (320Bn$)… this is due mainly to the increase in:
- single-aisle aircraft expected sales in volume (8%, +210Bn$) and aircraft (+210), and
- small wide-body segment with 230 more aircraft (+5%) and an increase in volume of 100Bn$ (+9%).
- Two years ago, I wrote about a sudden change between CMO 2013 and CMO 2012 of the mix in wide-bodies; in this respect, CMO 2015 is consistent with last year’s one, showing simply a slight increase in demand for both sub-segments.
- Interesting to note how Boeing continues to downplay the large aircraft segment (-16% in terms of number of aircraft) at the moment when a A380neo is discussed.
This year study’s figures and presentation focus on single-aisle (737 MAX, “fuelling forecast”) and small wide-bodies (787, “re-shaping long-haul marketplace”), the products to be pushed by the sales force.
Find below the nice infographic [PDF, 2.1MB] that the guys from Boeing have put up together:
Boeing Commercial Aviation Market Forecast 2015-2034 infographic.
As always, I recommend going through the CMO, as you can learn a lot about the business: from global numbers, to growth, traffic figures, fleet distributions, forecasts, etc… You may find the presentation [PDF, 3.8 MB], a file [XLS, 0.6 MB] with all the data or the full CMO report [PDF, 6.5MB].
For a comparison between this CMO and the respective Airbus’ GMF we will have to wait until after the summer, when Airbus publishes its update. Until then, find here the comparison based on 2014 market studies.
This year together with the CMO, Boeing provides two interesting papers from a couple of years ago: “Key Findings on Airplane Economic Life“ [PDF, 0.3MB, dating from August 2013] and “A Discussion of the Capacity Supply -Demand Balance within the Global Commercial Air Transport Industry“ [PDF, 0.6MB, dating from August 2013].
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(1) Traffic increased measured in RPKS (revenue passenger kilometers) in billions.
(2) These two ratios, 3.3% fleet demand and 4.9% traffic growth, point to an implicit increase in the average size of the aircraft in fleet and / or a higher utilization of the aircraft (higher availability).
(3) Find the reviews I wrote comparing 2014 CMO with 2013 CMO and 2013 CMO with 2012 CMO.
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