The Global Aircraft Cabin Upgrades Market: Highlights
The prospects of aircraft cabin upgrades market seem attractive and offer favorable growth opportunities for the market stakeholders in the foreseen future. The global aircraft cabin upgrades market is projected to grow at a healthy rate over the next five years to reach US$ 8,926.2 million in 2023. There are several factors collectively driving the demand for cabin upgrades in the aircraft industry.
Introduction of advanced aircraft is the biggest growth driver of the aircraft cabin upgrades market. The latest fuel-efficient variants, such as A320neo, B777x, and B737 Max, have an exceptional interior with an excellent use of space to squeeze the number of seats. This is compelling airlines and leasing companies to upgrade their existing aircraft fleet to provide a uniform feel and to maintain the brand image across their fleet.
Aircraft Cabin Upgrades Market - Insights by Aircraft Type
Commercial aircraft is likely to remain the growth engine of the market during the forecast period. Increasing cabin upgrades of A320 and B737, introduction of next-generation aircraft including B787 and A350XWB, and market entry of new players, such as COMAC and Irkut are the major factors that are proliferating the growth of cabin upgrades in the market.
Among commercial aircraft types, narrow-body aircraft is likely to generate a healthy demand for cabin upgrades in the foreseeable future as airlines and leasing companies are increasingly upgrading aircraft interiors as per the latest A320neo and B737 max cabins to provide the uniform feel and to maintain the brand image across the aircraft fleet. Also, some of the companies are converting passenger aircraft to freight aircraft. This further substantiates the demand for cabin upgrades.
Aircraft Cabin Upgrades Market – Insights by Application Type
Based on the application type, interior modification is likely to remain the most dominant segment of the global aircraft cabin upgrades market during the next five years, driven by commercial aircraft. Airlines and leasing companies are increasingly opting for cabin interior modifications of their existing aircraft fleet of A320, B737, A330, and B777 in order to provide a similar feel to fuel-efficient variants of A320neo, B737 max, A330neo, and B777x, respectively, to the customers.
Also, a shift from first-class to business-class and introduction of premium economy class are further elevating the demand for cabin interior modifications. Avionics segment is likely to witness the highest growth in the same period, driven by advancements in technology.
Aircraft Cabin Upgrades Market - Insights by Region
Asia-Pacific is likely to witness the highest growth during the same period, driven by a host of factors including increasing demand for commercial aircraft to support rising passenger traffic, opening of assembly plants of Boeing and Airbus in China, upcoming indigenous commercial and regional aircraft (COMAC C919 and Mitsubishi MRJ), and rising aircraft fleet size.
Based on regions, North America is projected to remain the largest market during the forecast period, driven by large aircraft fleet size and presence of major OEM and tier players in the region. The USA is the growth engine of the region’s market, owing to its early adoption of new technologies; presence of major aircraft OEMs including Boeing, Airbus, Cessna, and Gulfstream; and aging commercial aircraft fleet.
The supply chain of this market comprises raw material suppliers, cabin upgrade component manufacturers, cabin upgrade service provider, MRO companies, aircraft OEMs, airlines, and leasing companies. Some of the major cabin upgrades companies are AAR Corp, Air France Industries and KLM Engineering & Maintenance, Boeing Global Services, Diehl Aviation Laupheim GmbH, Jet Aviation AG, Lufthansa Technik AG, SR Technics, and Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd (ST Engineering). |
