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AINsight: Finding the Silver Lining in Covid-19 Crisis
Business aviation will bend but not break—and come out the other end of the Covid-19 crisis even stronger.

About 30 days into the biggest spanner-in-the-spokes that the business aviation industry has yet faced, signs of hope that at least the worst of the deadly Covid-19 pandemic might be peaking are what many are looking for these days. Pressures to return to some semblance of a “new normal” life have been building, as we individually and collectively learn to adjust to a very different world of work and life.

Within the business aviation industry, flight operations in Europe and North America have reportedly dropped by 70 percent to 90 percent over the past 30 days, enough to take the tailwind out of anyone’s flight plan. Commercial air passenger enplanements through U.S. TSA checkpoints are down 95 percent in some cases, as workplace shutdowns, social distancing, and work-from-home/stay-at-home orders have become the rule rather than the exception.

Rolland Vincent
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