White Paper
Building Resilience in Aerospace
The aerospace sector faces strong demand but rising risks from supply chain fragility, debt, labor shortages, decarbonization pressures, and geopolitical tensions. Despite record air travel forecasts and large aircraft order backlogs, OEMs struggle with constrained deliveries and rising costs. Business travel, critical for profits, lags recovery, while raw material supply is vulnerable to global shocks. BCG stresses multidimensional resilience across five areas: finance, organization, tech and innovation, operations and supply chain, and commercial discipline. Levers include active cost management, flexible supply chains, alternative technologies, and robust talent strategies. Companies that act preemptively outperform peers, turning crises into opportunities. BCG offers a 4-step roadmap—d
