The Airline Industry

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In order to understand how new aircraft might fit into the current market, one must understand the customer. For commercial transport aircraft manufacturers, the customers are the airlines. For business aircraft, military programs, or recreational aircraft, the market behaves quite differently.

The following discussion, intended to provide an example of an up-to-date view of one market, is excerpted from the British Airways web site, Jan. 2000. See also the excellent market outlooks published by Boeing and Airbus each year -- for example: Boeing Current Market Outlook (1MB pdf) and Airbus Global Market Forecast (2.5 MB pdf).
INDUSTRY OVERVIEW

Air travel remains a large and growing industry. It facilitates economic growth, world trade, international investment and tourism and is therefore central to the globalization taking place in many other industries.

In the past......

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