Regarding commercial aerospace, passenger traffic has continued to grow, albeit more slowly. That's mainly due to Europe and Asia-Pacific, where growth has continued. There's been uncertainty in North America in particular, driven by a combination of political and economic statements. Travel to the US is also reduced.

May 1, 2025 / CEO / receipt, needs a key / John Plant, CEO | earnings call 2025-05-01 | transcript 95f51b69-3112-4e53-a3d2-4c9a80413261 | chars 10004-10323 | segment 10

Air travel and freight transportation have continued to grow, especially in Asia Pacific. Backlogs for Airbus, Boeing, and Comac have never been higher, principally due to the underbuild of aircraft schedules by all of the aircraft manufacturers, but most notably by Boeing, given the strike, which commenced in late quarter three, and which lasted for almost two months, and was then followed by a further month of employee retraining with no aircraft build.

Feb 13, 2025 / CEO / receipt, needs a key / John Plant, CEO | earnings call 2025-02-13 | transcript af4f7e69-21dd-4219-a6c6-594a333db870 | chars 12962-13421 | segment 13

Firstly, regarding commercial aerospace, our prior comments regarding strong demand for air travel throughout the world continues to apply. Air traffic growth in Asia-Pacific has strengthened in particular for international travel.

Jul 30, 2024 / CEO / receipt, needs a key / John Plant, CEO | earnings call 2024-07-30 | transcript 51d1f429-f734-4501-a5c8-c092ef18e4a7 | chars 10172-10403 | segment 10

Asia-Pacific travel, which has been lagging the US and Europe, has been increasing rapidly and is now back to approximately 90% of pre-pandemic levels. International Asia-Pacific travel was up approximately 50% in recent months and speaks well to future aircraft demand, especially wide-body aircraft.

May 2, 2024 / CEO / receipt, needs a key / John Plant, CEO | earnings call 2024-05-02 | transcript 4769fc55-c62a-4f81-8858-7318ac8dd48e | chars 9884-10185 | segment 10

International travel continues to strengthen.

Feb 13, 2024 / CEO / receipt, needs a key / John Plant, CEO | earnings call 2024-02-13 | transcript 74a28394-8e28-407a-807d-ba94267abc2c | chars 14128-14173 | segment 15

Factory improvement for international travel, notably in Asia, also continues to increase. Domestic airline activity continues to be above 2019 levels in the Western countries. Given these low factors and the continued restriction of aircraft bills, the fleet of existing aircraft are having to work much harder. This is leading to robustness in the engine spares market, which is further increased by the fact that the deployment in recent years of new engine technologies, which are currently operating with increased replacement parts due to lower time on wing.

Nov 2, 2023 / CEO / receipt, needs a key / John Plant, CEO | earnings call 2023-11-02 | transcript a53ae743-d9e1-426f-94d0-bdd0e9e52c78 | chars 11046-11610 | segment 11

The leading indicators for air travel continue to show improvement, notably for domestic travel. We continue to hold the view that we'll see an acceleration in revenue growth during the course of the year, following a fairly flat Q1 compared to Q4.

Feb 2, 2022 / CEO / receipt, needs a key / John Plant, CEO | earnings call 2022-02-02 | transcript ec7cb7d6-6e33-4f9b-819e-8d2aaf60e3c9 | chars 12061-12309 | segment 12

The leading indicators for air travel continue to show improvement, notably for domestic travel, but also we note the revised requirements or restrictions being lifted for certainly transatlantic travel starting this month.

Nov 4, 2021 / CEO / receipt, needs a key / John Plant, CEO | earnings call 2021-11-04 | transcript 6d551697-f7f8-49b7-962d-dc201d76bfbe | chars 12089-12312 | segment 12

The leading indicators for air travel continue to show improvement, notably for domestic travel. This includes online searches for air tickets increases in flight schedules across most of the world, and the beginnings of some international travel.

Aug 4, 2021 / receipt, needs a key / John Plant, Executive Chairman and Co-Chief Executiv | earnings call 2021-08-04 | transcript 44309471-d480-4535-bf01-1daa7542257b | chars 13989-14236 | segment 13