Commercial Aerospace & Aviation

The commercial aerospace industry is in the midst of a robust up-cycle, across both the large aircraft and business aviation sectors. Though fundamentally positive, the present market dynamics point to significant challenges for aircraft manufacturers, suppliers, and operators across the entire value chain. Successful program capture and execution have never been more critical as competition is increasingly intense and pressure by primes to rationalize their supplier base threatens suppliers that fail to perform with being consolidated out of a platform position.

Buoyed by demand from expanding Asia-Pacific airlines and, increasingly, new and replacement demand from carriers around the world, the market for large transport aircraft has been robust. With improving cost and revenue environments coupled with an acute need to recapitalize aging fleets, U.S. carriers will likely be the driving force behind a new round of aircraft orders over the next 12-18 months. Supported by new and legacy demand, the current aircraft manufacturing up-cycle is likely to continue through the end of this decade.

The business jet market is thriving due to a confluence of events, including the introduction of new aircraft models and the proliferation of new business concepts like jet card membership programs. With more private air service options accessible to a growing number of travelers, and the deteriorating service levels and security inconveniences of commercial air travel, demand for business jets will remain solid in the years ahead.

In this positive market environment, suppliers are assuming broader responsibilities. As the primes face technical, financial, and operational challenges associated with new aircraft development and ambitious production schedules and volumes, suppliers’ roles are shifting. With the proliferation of risk-sharing partnerships and sub-prime integration responsibilities, suppliers have more financial and technical risk, but also enjoy greater opportunities to capture OEM and aftermarket revenue streams associated with aircraft platforms.

Avascent's Experience Serving the
Commercial Aerospace & Aviation Sectors

Avascent is uniquely positioned to offer sound strategic, marketing, business development, and investment advice to a range of clients confronting the challenges of the dynamic commercial aerospace sector. Our expertise, along with a deep commitment to the industry and our clients’ success, enables us to provide pragmatic and timely solutions to the most pressing strategic business challenges.

Avascent’s team has extensive experience serving clients with manufacturing and operations concerns. Through independent, rigorous, market validation, competitive assessments, opportunity identification and prioritization, and market and competitive risk assessments, our seasoned consultants support manufacturers, operators, and investors alike.

From providing strategic due diligence support to strategic and financial buyers in the sector to analyzing the market potential of emerging VLJ markets, Avascent’s consultants provide business leaders with needs- and fact-based analyses coupled with pragmatic advice. In a sector driven by complex global trends and business economics, Avascent’s sophisticated analyses integrate perspectives across a multitude of domains.