Future of Passenger Aircraft

comprising Boeing, Airbus and Bombardier aircraft from full-size long-haul aircraft to smaller short haul aircraft. The Group offers services across a network spanning 182 destinations in 44 countries

With only a few large companies across the globe (Boeing, MD, and Airbus), the commercial aircraft industry essentially exhibits the qualities of an oligopolistic competition with intense rivalry. Here is an analysis of competition in the commercial aircraft business using Porter’s Five Forces.

What began as a small Texas airline has grown to become one of the largest airlines in the United States. Today, Southwest Airlines flies over 70 million passengers per year to more than 62 cities. Southwest orchestrates over 3,000 flights per day. The Southwest fleet consists of over 436 jets which have an average age of nine years old. Included in

As a manufacturer of transportation equipment, Bombardier is well positioned in the aerospace and transportation segments to capture long-term market opportunities in Business Aircraft, Commercial Aircraft, and Aerostructures and Engineering Services (Bombardier Inc., 2014). These opportunities are expected to continue to rise due to accelerating urbanization and the rising need for mobility (United Nations, 2014). Furthermore, the state of the world economy and those of individual countries are key factors in the demand of air travel.

“You haven’t seen a tree until you have seen its shadow from the sky.” Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly a solo nonstop trans-Atlantic aircraft, spoke these words about the joys of flight in 1932. She and others, such as Orville and Wilbur Wright, Charles H. Lindbergh, and Frank Whittle, recognized early on how aviation would change our view of the world. Since these early discoveries of aviation, society has relied on flight as a primary means for safe transportation. This feeling of security was challenged on September 11, 2001, when nineteen hijackers took control of four commercial airliners and aimed the planes at targets in the United States. These terrorists’ attacks, referred to as 9/11, created the need for improved airport and airline security and reformed the United States Government’s entire security strategy and infrastructure.

Aviation is the major transportation industry in the world. It is the most efficient way to connect from place to place, and sometimes, the only way. It is a growing industry, unfortunately it results in a tremendous amount of pollution. The global community. Led by ICAO, the FAA and the US government, is united to reduce emission from aviation while trying to achieve a better, safer, efficient, sustainable industry. This is a hard goal to achieve when the industry is just growing. In this research paper I’ll try to illustrate the policy launched to create a clear path for a cleaner industry while facing old and new challenges, introduce the improvement related to the NextGen and advanced technologies and argue that although there are many improvements, we are still far from achieving optimal solutions for a verity of problems and the future of the industry in the age of fossil fuel is still a mystery.

Flying is an inspiring part of American life. It’s a symbol of our freedom, pioneering spirit, and economic success. Civil aviation has outpaced the national economy as the nation continues to revitalize itself following the most recent recession. Flying remains an economic frontier for America. We see unmanned aircraft and commercial space launches on the horizon. Through these innovations, civil aviation will continue to inspire the next generation, and bring economic prosperity to our

The following analysis discusses the suppliers, buyers, industry competition, threats to entry, and substitutes that exist within the large commercial aircraft industry. Additionally, the analysis identifies the pressure that each of these groups applies on the industry and estimates the impact this pressure has on potential industry profits. Each group is identified using a high, medium, or low-pressure classification. A high-pressure classification indicates the group reduces industry profit potential and vice versa.

airline industry has never matched the profitability of even the average U.S. corporation (ATA Report, 2007). In its “”FAA Aerospace Forecast Fiscal Years 2008–2025,” the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reported on the industry’s 36 mainline air carriers that use large passenger jets (over 90 seats) and 84 regional carriers that use smaller piston, turboprop, and regional jet aircraft (up to 90 seats) to provide connecting passengers to the larger carriers (FAA, FAA Aerospace Forecast Fiscal Years 2008–2025, A Review of 2007), stating that “three distinct trends have occurred over the past several years that have helped shape today’s U.S. commercial air carrier industry: (1) major restructuring and shrinking by the mainline network carriers; (2) rapid growth by low-cost carriers, particularly in nontraditional long-distance transcontinental markets; and (3) exceptional growth among regional carriers.”

The number of passengers reached to around 3.3 billion as travelers benefitted from a growing global network and airfares that dropped to 3.5%. Airlines also benefitted from the growth in connectivity and a 4% fall in freight rates, after inflation. The employment rate grew due to the need of aviation support, and is now at 58 million jobs worldwide. The airline industry has made enormous investments in modernizing fleets, which a total of 1,400 aircraft worth some $150 billion were added to airline fleets.

Today, there is the fun of traveling across the world. Human interaction has increased like never before. People are transacting businesses more than they used to, and the way to get to each other is enhanced by the airplane. Moving from India to South Africa, Nigeria to Germany, United States to South Korea, and many other destinations globally, the airplane is the choice for travelers. There is no one who wishes to be dragged back to the days of the slow sea travels.

According to Liu (2012), the U.S has the biggest economy in the world and its 17% proportion of the global GDP is testament to that. The U.S economy is comprised of various sectors and one of the most vital sectors is the aviation industry, which falls under the transportation and logistics sector and is a major source of growth for the U.S economy in terms of revenue, capacity building and human development. This highlights the importance of the domestic aviation industry, and any factors that affect this industry are bound to have effects on the entire economy.

British Airways is the one of the largest airline companies, and the passengers carry overall in the fifth largest in the world. Most of plans are stay in Heathrow Airport which is the highest of main international airport. The British Airways has a long history and airlines cover 133 countries; include 373 airplanes. The BA Company includes 50,086 workers to be in the service, which is one of the largest employers and employees in the United Kingdom.

New Large Aircraft (NLA) or New Generation Large Aircraft (NGLA) are the future of long distance air travel. With current air craft size reaching unknown proportions to humankind, airports that are interested in attracting future business as well as the revenue the large amount of passengers per flight may generate, will have to adapt their installations to the demanding needs of these supersized vehicles. The following paper will focus on the new Airbus A380 and the requirements that airports inviting this magnificent work of engineering to use their installations will need to meet.

One of the world’s most competitive and prominent industries is the airlines industry. It generates huge amounts of income as well as employment each year. Some of the common names in US air travel service providers are Alaska, Northwest, Southwest, US airways, American etc.