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If airlines do not accelerate capacity growth again—particularly on domestic routes—the passenger narrowbody market is at risk of oversupply. In total, more than 29,000 aircraft are in the global passenger fleet, 20,195 of them narrowbodies, according to Aviation Week’s Fleet Discovery database...
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