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What the source says
The aircraft backlog exceeds 17,000 (sharply up from the 10,000-11,000 pre-pandemic), with an implied wait time of 14 years.
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Source
- Publisher
- International Air Transport Association · homepage ↗
- Report
- Airline Profitability to Strengthen Slightly in 2025 Despite Headwinds
- Type
- Press release
- Published
- 2 June 2025
- Locator
- Fleet/Supply Chain
- Retrieved
- 14 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable
- Report licence
- Proprietary report; figure taken from its public summary
Verification
- Status
- Verified · automated check
- Checked by
- Automated check (quote contains value)
- Checked on
- 15 September 2026
- Extraction confidence
- 85%
- Last change
- 15 September 2026
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- APA
- International Air Transport Association. (2025). Airline Profitability to Strengthen Slightly in 2025 Despite Headwinds. Retrieved 14 September 2026, from StatOrigin: https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T62B5SP11A28TN24FQB
- MLA
- International Air Transport Association. "Airline Profitability to Strengthen Slightly in 2025 Despite Headwinds." 2025, https://www.iata.org/en/pressroom/2025-releases/2025-06-02-01/. Accessed 14 September 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T62B5SP11A28TN24FQB.
- Chicago
- International Air Transport Association. "Airline Profitability to Strengthen Slightly in 2025 Despite Headwinds." 2025. https://www.iata.org/en/pressroom/2025-releases/2025-06-02-01/. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T62B5SP11A28TN24FQB.
- BibTeX
- @misc{iata2025aircraft, author = {{International Air Transport Association}}, title = {Airline Profitability to Strengthen Slightly in 2025 Despite Headwinds}, year = {2025}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T62B5SP11A28TN24FQB}, note = {Original source: https://www.iata.org/en/pressroom/2025-releases/2025-06-02-01/. Accessed 14 September 2026.} }
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