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The aftermarket for aircraft seating is seeing a post-pandemic boost, but challenges remain.
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The aftermarket for aircraft seating is seeing a post-pandemic boost, but challenges remain.
As commercial aircraft move between operators, the passenger experience hard product inside them — seats, IFE, galleys, monuments, and so on — may change as well. The point of transition may be marking a sale and refurbishment, or the ending of a lease period and the concomitant transfer of the aircraft back to the lessor before delivery to its next operator. But in a time when the retirement and scrapping of older aircraft has been accelerated by COVID-19, what changes are to be expected in the transition market as a result? Surplus seats Airframers have reduced production rates in order...