Commercial Aviation Monitor
Aviation insights by Cirium Ascend Consultancy
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Commercial Aviation Monitor
Leveraging Cirium data and Ascend Consultancy analysis and insight, the Commercial Aviation Monitor provides everything you need to know about the sector.
The monthly digest provides a high‑level summary of demand and supply trends, including macro‑economic indicators, schedules, airline fleet and utilization trends, emissions and sustainability, airline financial data, orders and deliveries, OEM production insight, and aircraft values and lease rates. Each edition also includes a deep dive on an industry theme such as industry outlook, freighter markets, regional aircraft, operating leasing, and more.
Everything you need to know about the sector, every month.
In March’s Issue
- Amid the current crisis in the Gulf region, a dedicated section in this month’s issue provides key metrics for the Middle East airline sector in the global context and outlines Cirium Ascend Consultancy’s thoughts around potential implications of the conflict.
- Airbus has disclosed a relatively conservative 2026 delivery target of 870 commercial aircraft, which represents a 10% increase over last year’s total of 793 aircraft. Cirium’s latest projection for Airbus/Boeing 2026 commercial deliveries is 1,510 aircraft – an 11% uplift over 2025.
- This month’s focus: The operating-leasing sector. AerCap and Air Lease are identified as the leading lessors in the 2025 delivery rankings, receiving 56 and 49 aircraft, respectively, from Airbus and Boeing. Meanwhile, Airbus’s share (versus Boeing) of lessor direct deliveries declined to 64% last year, its lowest since 2018.
Monthly updates
- Key developments and news summary
- Macroeconomic data
- Traffic and schedule data
- Utilization data
- CO2 emissions
- Fleet data
- Deliveries, orders, cancellations and retirements
- Airline results
- Operating leasing data
- Aircraft value and lease rate trends