FLEET
Average commercial fleet age
years, weighted by aircraft in service
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AEROSPACE ANALYTICS
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80 metrics across 10 domains, scoped to Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Central & South America and Oceania — each benchmarked against North America, Europe and Australia.
Compiled with AI · reviewed and signed by the desk
WHAT THE DATA SHOWS
Fleets are growing faster than the average aircraft is getting younger.
Delivery backlogs push average fleet age up across every priority region, which lengthens maintenance demand and keeps older airframes flying past their intended retirement. Against North America and Europe the gap is narrowing on utilisation but widening on age — a combination that concentrates risk in the aftermarket rather than in the cabin.
MIX
Widebody share of regional fleets
% of commercial fleet that is widebody
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TREND
Fleet growth trajectory
indexed aircraft in service, priority regions (2020 = 100)
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UTILISATION
Daily aircraft utilisation
block hours per aircraft per day
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BACKLOG
Order backlog cover
years of current production held as firm orders
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ROTORCRAFT
Rotorcraft fleet density
civil rotorcraft per million population
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TURBOPROP
Turboprop share of regional fleets
% of commercial fleet that is turboprop
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ORDERS
Aircraft on order against fleet size
firm orders as % of aircraft currently in service
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METHOD, REFRESH & PROVENANCE
Every figure is compiled from open-source and public-domain material and presented as our own summary: civil aviation authority registers, operator annual reports and fleet disclosures, airport traffic statistics, published launch manifests, training approval lists and manufacturer programme announcements. Nothing is republished from a proprietary database.
Metrics are reviewed and restated every Monday, so a figure cited on a Friday is the same one a colleague sees the following morning. Where a regional figure cannot be sourced directly it is estimated from comparable markets and flagged as directional.