Boeing: Airline Fleet Planners Must Think Further Ahead

Karen Walker November 17, 2025
Dave Schulte
Credit: Manjunath Kiran/AFP/Getty Images
BANGKOK—Long-term fleet planning is more important than ever, with airlines needing to think 10-15 years out and likely extending the lives of their current aircraft because of new aircraft delivery shortfalls, a Boeing executive says. Dave Schulte, Boeing's marketing managing director for Asia...
Karen Walker

Karen Walker is Air Transport World Editor-in-Chief and Aviation Week Network Group Air Transport Editor-in-Chief. She joined ATW in 2011 and oversees the editorial content and direction of ATW, Routes and Aviation Week Group air transport content.

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