Representative of Boeing said that in the next 20 years, Southeast Asia will need 4,500 aircraft, in which demand from Vietnam accounts for a significant part.

At the press conference in the morning on October 24 in Hanoi, Mr. Darren A. Hulst, Boeing's Vice President of Commercial Marketing, said airlines in Southeast Asia will need 4,500 new aircraft in the next 20 years with worth 710 billion USD at the listed price.

This growth has led to demand for commercial aviation services worth 785 billion USD from 2019 to 2038.

Notably, according to Mr. Darren A. Hulst, Vietnam's aviation market will play a key role in this growth. By the year 2038, Vietnam's fleet is expected to quadruple.

Mr. Darren A. Hulst, Vice President of Commercial Marketing of Boeing Group spoke at the press conference

"Vietnam's aviation industry has been growing impressively in the last 5 years, with the number of passengers tripling and the number of aircraft doubling," Mr. Darren Hulst said. The fastest growing middle class in Southeast Asia, along with the strong development of domestic and international tourism, Vietnam is becoming one of the fastest growing aviation markets in the world.

Another information, according to Mr. Darren A. Hulst, if in 2009, Vietnamese aviation only provided about 800,000 seats per month, by 2019, this figure would have reached 3.3 million.

The single-aisle aircraft is predicted by Mr. Darren A. Hulst to continue playing a key role in the fleet of aircraft used to operate domestic and regional routes in Vietnam. The figure given by Mr. Darren A. Hulst is that the number of domestic flights of Vietnam has increased 3.5 times in the past 10 years, from 5,340 flights per month in 2009 to 18,680 flights per month in 2019.

(Source: baogiaothong.vn)