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Summer 2023 will see a somewhat surprising return to the skies. The Airbus A380, which was not so long ago essentially written off for dead, is making a comeback.

As the summer travel season approaches, the global maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) industry is on the verge of an important milestone.

As airlines and maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) organisations consider the various ways to catch up on maintenance that was deferred during the pandemic, they should not count on any slack from regulatory bodies.

Global spending in the maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) market is expected to reach $94 billion this year, just shy of the previous record of $95 billion achieved in 2019. The MRO market will then steadily grow by around 2.9 percent per year over the course of the next decade.

At the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos last month, a panel session on the future of travel concluded with a discussion on the importance of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), which was also the topic of not one, but two, WEF articles in the run-up to the annual gathering.

With an increasing reliance on automated processes in manufacturing, repairs and inspections, the aerospace industry is set to undergo a robotics revolution in the coming years.

Although there is a general sense of optimism about 2023, many in aviation can’t shake the feeling that the industry is still dancing on a knife’s edge.

One of the biggest surprises during the aviation industry’s quicker-than-expected recovery from the coronavirus pandemic was something that didn’t happen.

Will 2023 be the year that the aviation industry finally returns to normal?

Digital innovations have helped the aviation industry cut costs and increase efficiencies for years now, but what does the future hold on the digitalisation front?