Boeing forecasts global airliner fleet to almost double over the next 20 years

US aerospace giant Boeing has, on the eve of the Paris Air Show, released its 2023 Commercial Market Outlook (CMO) report. The group predicts a total global demand for 42 600 new commercial jets over the next two decades. The air transport sector has already resurged back, or almost back, to its levels before the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, the airframer pointed out. The annual CMO forecasts worldwide demand for jet airliners and freighters, from the regional to widebody categories, for the following 20 years – in this case, until 2042. Boeing’s CMO is the world’s oldest such survey, having been first published in 1961.