{"id":17948,"date":"2021-03-10T23:51:48","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T23:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=17948"},"modified":"2021-03-10T23:51:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T23:51:48","slug":"north-america-business-aviation-demand-recovers-while-europe-slumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/international-news\/north-america-business-aviation-demand-recovers-while-europe-slumps\/%20","title":{"rendered":"North America Business Aviation Demand Recovers While Europe Slumps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WINGX\u2019s weekly Global Market Tracker reveals \u2018solid trends\u2019 in US with the charter market setting records<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Challenger 300\/350 is the busiest business jet globally last month and Nextant flew 8% more sectors<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

North America is seeing a much stronger recovery with\nbusiness aviation activity back within 10% of pre-pandemic levels while Europe\ncontinues to suffer, WINGX\u2019s weekly Global Market Tracker shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The US is seeing \u2018solid trends\u2019 in business aviation traffic\nwith 445,000 sectors flown in 2021 \u2013 just 7% down on last year. The charter\nmarket is particularly strong recording a 4% rise in flight hours and a\nmarginal 1% drop in departures. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In contrast the European area is suffering the heaviest\ndeclines with total activity down 70% and while business aviation activity is\nmore robust it is still 25% down. One bright spot is Eastern Europe with Russia\nseeing strong domestic growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Globally, the busiest business jet in February 2020 was the\nChallenger 300\/350. The Nextant flew 8% more sectors than in Feb-20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The relative health of business aviation contrasts with\nother sectors \u2013 global fixed wing activity is trending down by 43% so far in\n2021, with scheduled airline operations down by 52%, cargo operations up by 10%\nand business aviation activity trending towards 85% of normal levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richard Koe, Managing Director of WINGX Advance, comments:\n\u201cThe US is starting to see an accelerated recovery from the winter pandemic,\nwith both scheduled and business aviation activity opening up, and charter\nactivity setting some new records, especially in Florida. It\u2019s a different\nstory in Europe, with a long road to run, and international leisure trips all\nbut illegal. This slowdown is very clear in Western Europe, with contrasting\nopenness to the East, business jets being used more than ever within Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

US FOCUS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Florida continues to be the US hub for business jet\nmovements with 16% growth in activity this year and more than 20% growth in\ncharter departures. February has continued to be strong, with 29,000 flights\noperated which is 15% up on the same month last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

California is the second busiest State for business jet\ntraffic, with travel restrictions frustrating recovery and flight sectors down\n11%. Demand in Texas bounced back in the last week of the month after taking a\nnosedive during the freeze with flights trending 7% down for February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colorado, the perennial powerhouse of business jet demand\nduring the pandemic, added 14% in flight activity in February while Arizona\ncontinues to attract more business jet demand than ever and is 5% up on last\nyear. New Jersey looks to be the last State to recover, with flights still\nlagging 40%. In contrast, New York is flat, with strong growth back and forth\nwith Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EUROPE FOCUS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Europe\u2019s long road to recovery in business jet usage has\nbeen held back by prolonged lockdown which is complicating any cross-border\ntravel and the slide back into double-dip economic recession means the\nprospects look bleak for at least the first half of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The last week has seen a 34% dip in YOY business jet\nactivity, with Government activity one of the few resilient sectors. The UK is\nalmost two-thirds down on last year while the core Eurozone countries have all\nseen business jet movements drop at least a third in the second half of\nFebruary compared to same period last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, demand continues to be stronger than ever for\nflights in Russia and Turkey from mainly domestic activity. There is a clear\ncontrast between Western and Eastern Europe, with the latter seeing growth in\nbusiness jet activity in Ukraine, Romania, Latvia, Croatia, and Albania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

REST OF THE WORLD FOCUS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The strongest business jet market is Mexico, which has seen\na relatively strong recovery with flights down by 15% in February. Domestic\nactivity is stalling at 33% below normal, but connections with the US and the\nBahamas are well up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nigeria and China continue to see strong growth in domestic\nuse of business jets with the busiest connections in China between Hainan,\nBeijing, and Shenzhen, and in Nigeria between Abuja and Lagos. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brazil has seen growth this year, internationally with\nAngola, and domestically with strong growth between Porto Seguro and Congonhas.\nHowever, the cancellation of this year\u2019s Carnival saw a sharp drop in mid-month\ntraffic compared to last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WINGX\u2019s weekly Global Market Tracker reveals \u2018solid trends\u2019 in US with the charter market setting records Challenger 300\/350 is the busiest business jet globally last month and Nextant flew 8% more sectors North America is seeing a much stronger recovery with business aviation activity back within 10% of pre-pandemic levels while Europe continues to suffer, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17949,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17948\/revisions\/17949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}