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Boeing sees over 6,020 jets in China in next 20 years
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BOEING said yesterday that it expects China to need more than 6,020 aircraft in the next 20 years, an 8 percent rise over last year’s two-decade estimate, as growing overseas leisure travel drives demand for single-aisle and wide-body planes.
The aircraft maker’s new estimate of 6,020 planes, valued at US$870 billion, is up from the 5,580 it estimated last year and represents a near tripling of China’s current fleet. The country, the world’s second-biggest aircraft market, is essential to Boeing’s long-term global strategy.
“New business models like low-cost carrier, regional carriers are driving demand for more direct flights to more destinations,” Randy Tinseth, vice president of marketing at Boeing Commercial Airplanes, said at a media briefing in Beijing.
Boeing expects China to overtake the United States as the world’s single-biggest aircraft market in the period through 2032.
Chinese airlines are increasingly training their sights on overseas routes as the domestic market cools amid a slowing economy and government budget austerity. The overseas push is also fueled by rising numbers of outbound leisure travelers, expected to double to 200 million by 2020, according to brokerage CLSA.
Besides intensifying its coverage of neighboring countries, Air China alone has opened three new routes to the US since July last year, including launching a three-time weekly service to Honolulu in January. The last time it launched new flights to the US was in the early 1980s.
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