Commercial Aviation In 2025: An Industry Facing Its Contradictions

IndiGo aircraft flying through sky

IndiGo has more than 900 aircraft on firm order as it seeks to take advantage of strong growth in India’s aviation market.

Credit: Airbus
Seemingly now more than ever, trends in commercial aviation are confusing, complex and contradictory. Conventional wisdom suggests that wars in several regions, the threat of new trade tensions and tariffs, protectionism, onshoring, and complaints of overtourism are bad for aviation. Yet the...
Jens Flottau

Based in Frankfurt, Germany, Jens is executive editor and leads Aviation Week Network’s global team of journalists covering commercial aviation.

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