EUROCONTROL Trends in Air Traffic
Volume 6
Business Aviation
in Europe 2009
EUROCONTROL

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EUROCONTROL has a unique archive of flight plans filed in Europe, some 10 million flights per year. For some years, the Agency has published occasional, in-depth analyses of different aspects of air transport in Europe, drawing on the trends it finds in this archive: the Trends in Air Traffic series. The aim of these reports is to help stakeholders, and ourselves, to understand better the traffic trends that we see.
Increasingly, we are also making traffic statistics available on the web through the STATFOR interactive dashboard1, but that has not taken away the value in having reference documents presenting the key figures.
Trends 42 discussed business aviation up to 2007 at some length. This issue of Trends is a trial of a new style for the series, more like a statistical digest than the detailed analysis presented in previous issues: it aims to bring key graphs and tables together in a convenient reference document, with a higher proportion of numbers and less discussion; much of the discussion in Trends 4 is still valid. We will still bring out detailed reports - ‘regional airports’ and ‘planning for delay’ are in the pipeline – but we hope you will find this new style a useful, occasional complement to on-line statistics and detailed studies.
David Marsh
Series Editor: EUROCONTROL Trends in Air Traffic
Manager, Forecasting and Traffic Analysis
EUROCONTROL
FOREWORD
1 See www.eurocontrol.int/statfor/sid
2 More to the Point: Business Aviation in Europe in 2007, EUROCONTROL Trends in Air Traffic Volume 4, May 2008.
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From 2001 to 2007, business aviation expanded rapidly, contributing significantly to the total growth of flights in Europe. Then the economic downturn hit this market segment early and hard; the 14% decline in flights in 2009 was the largest of the main market segments (section 1 and 2). This report captures the main trends for flights of European business aviation in 2009.
Of the six main States, the downturn in business aviation affected the UK and Spain most strongly (section 3). This was enough for Germany to move into second place, in terms of numbers of flights generated, ahead of the UK but still some way behind the largest source, France.
It has been clear from previous issues of Trends that business aviation specialises in flying from smaller airports. It flies a very large number of routes, three times the number of scheduled links, and predominantly city-pairs where there is no daily scheduled service. The cut-backs in traffic have increased this effect further (sections 4 and 5): the proportion of business aviation flights on city pairs without daily scheduled flights rose from 62% in 2007 to 66% in 2009.
There has been little change in the hourly pattern of traffic, or in the pattern of distances (sections 6 and 7) although routes to and from Moscow are more evident in the top 500 than they were (Figure 1).
Business aviation continues to be about small fleets, flying rarely (sections 8 and 9). Some 3,200 operators or handling agents filed flight plans in 2009, but 1,900 of these had only one aircraft that flew in Europe. The very-light jets are now flying and the number of flights is growing (section 10), though for well-rehearsed reasons not growing as quickly as many, including ourselves, expected.
In the medium-term, the forecast is for growth slower than that seen in the 2004-2007 period, but still faster than the growth of the bulk of flights (section 12). As a result, the market share of business aviation should recover from the 6.9% of flights in 2009, passing 8% around 2015.
SUMMARY
Figure 1 - The top 500 business aviation routes carry 27% of the flights (38% for scheduled flights)
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CONTENTS
1. WHY BUSINESS AVIATION? 1
2. ANNUAL GROWTH 2
3. THE MAIN EUROPEAN STATES 3
4. BUSINESS AVIATION USES SMALL AIRPORTS 4
5. INCREASINGLY WHERE SCHEDULED IS NOT 5
6. A SHORT WORKING DAY 6
7. DISTANCES 7
8. SMALL FLEETS 8
9. AIRCRAFT TYPES 9
10. VERY-LIGHT JETS 10
11. COMMERCIAL AND NON-COMMERCIAL 11
12. LOOKING AHEAD 12
A. BUSINESS AVIATION AIRCRAFT TYPES 15
B. BUSINESS AVIATION TRAFFIC PER STATE 18
C. TOP AIRPORTS FOR BUSINESS AVIATION 20
D. BUSIEST EUROPEAN AIRPORTS AND THEIR BUSINESS AVIATION 22
E. MAIN STATE-PAIR FLOWS 23
F. BUSINESS AVIATION FLEETS BY STATE OF REGISTRATION 24
G. MAIN AIRCRAFT TYPES FOR BUSINESS AVIATION 25
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