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Boeing says Asia Pacific region will need 8,960 new jets(Seattepi.com) The Asia Pacific region will be the world's largest aviation market over the next two decades, requiring 8,960 new commercial jets, worth approximately $1.1 trillion, according to a forecast Boeing released Wednesday at the Asian Aerospace Expo in Hong Kong.
"Twenty years from now more than 40 percent of the world's airline traffic will begin, end or take place within the Asia Pacific region," Randy Tinseth, vice president of marketing for Boeing Commercial Airplanes, said in a news release. "That's a big leap for a region that was not even mentioned in our earliest Boeing market forecasts back in the 1950s."
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