December Holiday Travel Provides Private Aviation Boost
Global business aviation saw a surge over the December holiday period which brought activity levels to within 11 percent of those of the previous December.
Cessna Citation M2 (Photo: Textron Aviation)
Cessna Citation M2 (Photo: Textron Aviation)

Global business aviation saw a surge over the December holiday period that brought activity levels to within 11 percent of those of the previous December, according to statistics released today by industry data provider WingX Advance. The segment saw a peak of 12,000 flights on December 23 and the rolling seven-day average daily activity was the highest since March when the Covid pandemic fully manifested itself in the U.S. While commercial scheduled aviation has been down by 63 percent since the start of the pandemic, WingX said business aircraft traffic was down by less than half that amount over the same period,