The airlines will need 33,500 new commercial aircraft by 2030, mainly in the Asia-Pacific region, according to market estimates of the U.S. aircraft manufacturer Boeing.
These devices represent an amount of 4.000 billion (2.829 billion euros). The request should be "solid" in the coming years, with an average annual growth of 5% of passenger traffic, said Thursday in Paris Randy Tinseth, vice president of marketing for Boeing Commercial Airplanes division. He spoke to reporters a few days before the opening, June 20, the Air Show and Space at Le Bourget.
Tinseth says, the need for new aircraft will concern primarily the single-aisle aircraft market, with a capacity of 90 to 240 passengers, and the Asia Pacific region. "Unstable fuel prices, political upheaval in the Middle East and North Africa and the problems of debt outstanding in many industrialized countries create a risk of contraction" of the economy, Boeing noted. But the manufacturer estimated that the sector should not be affected long term.
Boeing revised its forecast adds that the bull market after noting an 8% growth in air traffic in 2010. Traffic was down 2% in 2009, economic recession. The U.S. aircraft manufacturer, in 2010, delivered 462 commercial aircraft, against 510 for its European rival Airbus
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