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If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. Or so the adage goes. Yet not everything can be planned for, and in an increasingly volatile world even the best-laid plans are being tested. A squall may be visible on the horizon, but forecasting rain does not guarantee you will stay dry. Planning has changed. Aerospace decisions are now made under volatility, not certainty. Production, maintenance capacity and aftermarket positioning must be aligned before demand fully materialises.

3-5 August 2026 | McCormick Place Chicago | Enhance the traveler experience and proactively address potential disruptions

As global maintenance capacity tightens, Africa's MRO sector provides a compelling case study for the wider aerospace industry.

Commercial aviation heads into the summer amid disruption to aircraft supply, travel demand and the operating environment. Special guest Simon Goodson, CEO of Aerfin, will join Cirium Ascend Consultancy's Richard Evans and Sofia Zoidou and as they explore what the latest developments mean for airlines, the aerospace supply chain and the aviation finance sector.

2025 deliveries reports Access Cirium's latest delivery reports across helicopter, business aviation, and military markets - bringing together verified data, OEM performance benchmarks, and regional trends. Understand global delivery activity to track competitor performance, identify market shifts, and inform fleet, investment, and production planning across civil and defense aerospace.

The quotes in this article are from JetSMART's leadership team, provided in response to questions from Cirium ahead of publication. Every airline efficiency story I come across follows the same pattern. An older fleet is phased out. Routes are restructured. A fuel programme nudges the numbers in the right direction, year by year. JetSMART does not have a story like that. The airline launched in Chile in July 2017 with leased A320ceo aircraft, but within months had committed to something different.

Shruti Salwan, Markets Editor, ICIS European jet fuel markets have been dramatically reshaped by the Middle East crisis since early March, as prices have surged amid tightening physical supply before partially retreating as alternative flows stabilise the system. The initial shock raised concerns over aviation fuel availability, but airlines have held firm, absorbing higher costs and largely maintaining capacity, helped by a gradual easing of fuel prices and robust passenger demand.