In the world of near-instant news, and with a fresh round of annual sales meetings already underway, many business aviation industry executives are a little anxious these days. Understandably, they want additional visibility into how business aviation and its players performed in 2018, as well as what the prospects look like as we head into 2019.
From the perspective of aircraft sales and deliveries, the hard and mostly thankless work of sorting through the pen-and-paper and electronic transaction documentation, updating and verifying databases, and filling in the inevitable blanks in between is well underway and mostly completed. With the typical acceleration in year-end aircraft sales activity, leaders from across the industry—from Wall Street to Main Street, from boulevard Côte-Vertu Road to Quai Marcel Dassault, Gulfstream Road, Cessna Boulevard, General Aviation Drive, and beyond—are predictably abuzz, flush with more questions than answers.
