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View all search resultsRI 'needs' over 600 new aircraft soon to revamp aging fleet: Boeing outlook
According to Boeing's 2025 outlook, Indonesia will need over 600 aircraft to revamp its aging fleet and increase capacity to match its regional peers in competitiveness.
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Boeing 737 MAX planes bearing the liveries of various airlines are parked on June 1, 2022, at King County International Airport-Boeing Field in Seattle, Washington. (Reuters/Lindsey Wasson)
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ndonesia will need more than 600 aircraft to revamp its aging fleet and bring its capacity on par with other Southeast Asian countries, according to the Commercial Market Outlook (CMO) 2025 of United States aviation giant Boeing.
The country has the largest but also the oldest fleet in the region, with an average age of 14.4 years and around 5 percent of new generation aircraft, the report says.
“This speaks to the need for that replacement cycle of these airplanes and also supporting the future growth of the region,” Dave Schulte, Boeing’s managing director of commercial marketing in Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia and Oceania, told a media briefing on Wednesday.
Schulte added that Indonesia was still lagging in number of departing seats per capita with a rate of 0.4, well below an average of around 0.65 seats per capita among its regional peers.
“If we were to grow Indonesia in terms of seats per capita to the average of Southeast Asia, [...] doing that overnight would mean the need for about 600 new airplanes to enter Indonesia in the near term alone,” he explained.
According to this year’s Boeing CMO, Indonesia’s fleet growth has slowed over the past decade through to the post-pandemic period, with new aircraft deliveries declining from 54 in 2014 to none last year.
Few new airplanes had entered the Indonesian market after the pandemic, Schulte said, even though it was a high-growth market with strong demographic fundamentals to support fleet expansion.
