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Jun 20, 2023 (newstodate): In the new Airbus Global Market Forecast, the company predicts a global demand for adding 2,510 freighter aircraft during the period 2023-2042.
   Of these, 920 will be new productions, while 1,590 will be converted aircraft, corresponding to over 60 percent of the total.
   600 of the total freighter aircraft will be wide-body aircraft offering over 80 tonnes capacity; 890 freighters will be mid-size wide-body aircraft offering the capacity of 40 to 80 tonnes, while another 1,020 will be single-aisle aircraft offering from 10 to 40 tonnes capacity.
   In total, Airbus expects the global freighter fleet in service to reach 3,230 aircraft by 2042.
   In its Global Market Forecast, Boeing sees the global freighter fleet to comprise 3,610 aircraft in service by 2041.
   Over the next 20 years, the freighter fleet will take in some 2,800 production plus conversion deliveries, with approximately half of them replacing retiring aircraft, and the remainder expanding the fleet to meet projected traffic growth.  
   Roughly two thirds of all deliveries will be freighter conversions of passenger aircraft, about 70 percent of which will be standard body aircraft.