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Boeing, Airbus, engines and the supply chain building the world's fleet.
GTF groundings are down 40% from peak and LEAP shop visits now turn in about 100 days. But IATA warns the real maintenance wave arrives after the current crisis clears, and the industry has no plan for it.
After nearly ten years of review, the FAA has certified Boeing's smallest MAX. The approval matters less for the order book than for what it says about Boeing, the FAA, and the future of the small-narrowbody market.
Dozens of companies have tried to build large jetliners. Nearly all of them are gone. The Airbus–Boeing duopoly is not an accident — it is the product of the most punishing economics in manufacturing.
With more than 16,000 jets on order and both manufacturers sitting on roughly a decade of production, 2026 is shaping into a race defined not by selling aircraft but by building them.