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Spring 2026
Trying to predict the outlook for commercial aviation is a fool’s game. The only real certainty, is that there will be uncertainty.
And so it has proved again.
The backdrop to this year had looked relatively encouraging for the aviation industry, albeit with the headwinds that have clipped growth in the sector remaining. These include disruption to trade flows amid tariffs and countermeasures, ongoing aircraft and engine availability issues, and continued pockets of conflict and geopolitical disruption – not least the war in Ukraine, which has now entered its fifth year.
Yet these were challenges airlines and the air travel market had adapted to, learnt to live with and – for the aircraft and engine shortage at least – had reason to believe the industry might be over the worst.
However, the Israeli and US air strikes on Iran and the latter’s subsequent retaliatory action has caused another rupture in the aviation industry, notably reaching points in the Gulf that had previously seemed immune when problems previously flared in the region. Such has been the growth of the Gulf carriers and their hubs, that their closure – even if only temporarily – is felt across the global industry.
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