May was a relatively quiet month for new order of commercial aircraft, following six months in a row of gross order activity exceeding 100 units per month, starting with the peak reached back November 2021 of close to 450 orders.
Airbus delivered 47 aircraft in May, a 6% decrease from its aircraft delivered in May 2021, and a 31% decrease from May 2019. Boeing delivered 33 aircraft in May, a 106% increase from a year prior and a 38% increase over its May 2019 deliveries.
Asia Pacific has seen slow recovery from the pandemic, however, when indexed to May 2019 data, Asia Pacific domestic flights (cycles), in May 2022, have just passed the 100% mark.
In March 2022, Embraer has launched a project with the Greater Zurich Area that includes Daedalean, Near Earth Autonomy, Iris Automation, Ansys from the U.S. and Motora.ai from Brazil.
Eastern European airlines’ May 2022 flights (cycles) are a little under 75% of May 2019 levels, however, their flight hours are less than 70%, suggesting shorter flights are now happening.
Aviation Week Networks Tracked Aircraft Utilization tool shows that for the first time since the outbreak of the pandemic, that year on year utilization has dropped below the equivalent month of the year prior.
The very latest in a series of critical market reports from AWIN’s Data and Analytics teams delving into key metrics on COVID-19 and its impact on the global Commercial market, this essential briefing deliver insight into:
As the war between Russia and Ukraine is having direct repercussions on commercial aviation in Russia, the conflict has ripple effects on a wider scale.
