Delivery delays and lack of spare parts to constrain airline capacity until 2025

Willie Walsh, the director general of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), has told the industry to prepare for constraints on airline capacity until 2025. Speaking with Reuters at a conference in Dublin, Ireland, the IATA boss said that the rest of 2023 will also be labored. Walsh blames delays to new aircraft deliveries and a lack of spare parts available to deal with demand. “I can’t see anything really improving or significantly improving probably until 2025 at the earliest and it may even go beyond that,” Walsh told Reuters. While Boeing and Airbus have both been beset with issues in delivering jets to its customers, Walsh also revealed that airlines are having difficulties finding parts, particularly for engines. “It means capacity will be slightly lower than the industry had forecast,” Walsh said.

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