Chris Seymour
OpinionLooking past the pandemic to gauge future fleets
Cirium’s latest long-term market forecast reflects the impact that the coronavirus crisis is having on the industry, but still foresees strong demand for airliners over the next 20 years.
OpinionWhy crisis means 2020 is the year of freighters and preighters
Chris Seymour, head of market analysis at Ascend by Cirium, looks at how the cargo market has coped during the pandemic
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Ascend: Latin American airline fleet to more than double by 2037
FlightGlobal’s latest long-term delivery forecast expects the Latin American fleet to more than double over the next 20 years to almost 4,500 aircraft, writes Flight Ascend Consultancy’s head of market analysis Chris Seymour
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EBACE: Flight Ascend Consultancy sees positive trends in business aviation market
This year marks 10 years since the global financial crisis – an event that certainly made its mark on the business jet market. While the stability of recent years had been characterised by a slowing market and lower oil prices, 2017 started to produce some genuinely positive signs for the ...
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ANALYSIS: FlightGlobal's long-term outlook for Latin America
As Latin American airlines meet at this year's ALTA Airline Leaders forum, Flight Ascend Consultancy’s head of market analysis Chris Seymour outlines findings from FlightGlobal’s latest long-term airliner demand forecast for the region
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DUBAI: Forecast shows widebodies as key to Gulf fleet growth
FlightGlobal’s latest long-term forecast predicts that 43,725 new commercial jet and turboprop aircraft will be delivered globally into passenger and freighter airline service over the next 20 years. Of these, some 3,000 new airliners will be delivered to carriers in the Middle East region.
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ANALYSIS: Where is the middle of the market?
Chris Seymour, Flight Ascend Consultancy's head of market analysis, considers the issues around a new twin-aisle family to serve the MoM
Paid contentINSIGHT FROM FLIGHTGLOBAL: How the air cargo market is in transition
The recent data from IATA for the whole year of 2016 saw cargo traffic rise by 3.8% in freight tonne-kilometres (FTK), against a 5.3% increase in capacity measured in available tonne kilometres. This encouraging growth was compared to the anaemic 2.3% rise in 2015 and the past decade’s average annual ...
Paid contentINSIGHT FROM FLIGHTGLOBAL: The Flight Fleet Forecast's outlook for Latin America
Chris Seymour, head of market analysis at Flight Ascend Consultancy, examines the future shape of Latin America’s fleet
Paid contentINSIGHT FROM FLIGHTGLOBAL: Conversions dominate soft cargo market
Chris Seymour, head of market analysis at Flight Ascend Consultancy, examines cargo’s mixed fortunes as yields fall, and looks ahead in a 20-year aircraft delivery forecast
Paid contentINSIGHT FROM FLIGHTGLOBAL: Ascend widebody fleet forecast
Chris Seymour, head of market analysis at Flight Ascend Consultancy, examines the drivers of future twin-aisle demand
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ANALYSIS: Market turmoil for offshore operators
Lower oil prices may have provided great benefits to the world’s commercial airlines, but for helicopter operators serving the oil and gas market, they have prompted a reversal in fortunes. Since the end of 2015, the in-service fleet in the offshore support market has fallen by over 180 aircraft, some ...
AnalysisANALYSIS: Asia orders strength underpins jet backlog
There has been much industry comment about whether the market has “over-ordered”, as the global firm backlog for commercial jets now represents a 60% share of the current fleet and almost nine years of production at 2016’s rate.
AnalysisANALYSIS: Engine selection trends on the A320neo
With the Airbus A320neo recently entering into service, how successful have the two engine manufacturers been in winning customers to power the re-engined twinjet?
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ANALYSIS: Air cargo recovery endures rollercoaster ride
The air cargo market went through a tough time during the recession. Cargo traffic fell nearly 10% across 2008 and 2009, rebounded 19% in 2010, but then stagnated for three years. In 2014, there finally came a return to sustained growth, with IATA announcing that freight-tonne kilometres (FTKs) were up ...