Expert Opinion
AINsight: 2020 Vision
Business jet OEMs are coming off some of their best performance in the last 10 years, but there could be turbulence ahead.

Ten years ago, there was much talk about “bifurcated” business jet markets, with demand for higher-end business jets being sustained and actually growing in the post-2008 period, while sales of light and very-light jet models slipped and fell quite markedly. Today, this bifurcation remains an important, albeit less sharply defined, feature of the demand environment, as OEMs collectively and for the most part individually come off of their best order intake performances in the last 10 years.

It is true that demand for products at the top of the market remains solid, as customers are drawn to the latest and greatest designs that have been the subject of so much of the industry’s R&D expenditures at the OEMs and their suppliers post-2008. Today, customers are blessed with a wide choice of all-new and recently refreshed business aircraft models to choose from.

Rolland Vincent
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