2016 FBO Survey: The Americas

2016 FBO Survey: The Americas 

As business flying activity in North America continues bobbing again from the profundities of the downturn, that has inferred inspiring news and creating accomplishment for huge parts of the associations that organization those flying machine.

As demonstrated by industry data supplier Argus, in its 2015 Business Aviation Review, the industry posted a year-over-year rise in flight development in 24 of the 25 months since December 2013. A year back it saw a 2.1-percent climb in flight activity and a 2.7-percent get in flight hours.

"We truly consider 2015 to be to some degree a breakout year," said Atlantic Aviation CEO Lou Pepper. "I don't mean it was exceptional, yet it just seemed to take after an impressive measure of the essentials that have driven the business going before the downturn are returning."

Flight development a year prior was 4.2 percent up on 2013 levels, and it was 4 percent higher than in 2012. "Consistently has ventured forward.

If you set up each one of them together, I think 2015 was the watershed year," Pepper told AIN. "Business is back to a sound level as of right now."

That identifies with the results from the Aviation Business Strategies Group's yearly FBO Industry Fuel Sales Survey and Forecast, released for the present year on the eve of NBAA's Schedulers and Dispatchers Conference in January.

Some place in the scope of 54 percent of the FBOs reported they had sold some place around 1 and 8 percent more fuel a year prior.

"This is the main gone through since we started the review that more than 50 percent of the respondents sold more fuel than in the prior year," said association co-key and FBO industry veteran John Enticknap.

Great confidence for 2016 prospered among the review respondents, with more than 90 percent saying they expect either the same or favored fuel bargains over in 2015.