Missed Cirium’s latest webinar on 2025 MRO trends? Discover key insights on global capacity shifts, predictive analytics, and regional market growth.
The maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) sector is navigating a landscape marked by disruption and significant regional power shifts. Cirium’s webinar, Global Airframe MRO Trends: A Deep Dive, offered a detailed analysis of these changes. The session featured insights from Andrew Doyle, Senior Director for Market Development; Simon Mills, Principal MRO Research Specialist; and Finlay Grove, Product Manager, Ascend, who unpacked the data behind global capacity, utilization, and the geographic redistribution of MRO work.
Key Highlights
• Market dominance: The Asia-Pacific region is a dominant force in the MRO market, handling 50-70% of heavy checks and holding a 56% market share in widebody maintenance.
• Capacity shifts: From 2019 to 2025, global MRO maintenance lines grew by 5%. Europe’s capacity increased by 28%, while North America’s declined by 20%.
• Market concentration: In 2025, just 35 MRO providers were projected to account for approximately half of all observed heavy maintenance events.
• Narrow-body distribution: Maintenance for narrow-body aircraft is more evenly distributed, with North America and Asia each holding a 34% market share, followed by Europe at 28%.
• Efficiency gains: Newer generation aircraft are showing a structural reduction in the duration of C-Checks. (....)