Aviation Market Forecast

Airbus A220 poised to unlock over 2,200 new global air routes by 2045

At the Airbus 2026 Global Market Forecast briefing in London, industry analysts and executives mapped out a multi-decade shift in how passengers move across the globe. Rather than maintaining future capacity entirely within established mega-city corridors, the long-term evolution of air travel will be dictated by the rapid emergence of smaller and medium-sized urban centers. Airbus projects that these secondary markets will grow at a pace nearly three times faster than their megacity counterparts, creating an urgent need for point-to-point connectivity that bypasses congested legacy hubs entirely.