WingX: Bizav Use Dips in December
Global business aviation usage declined in the first half of December compared with last year, according to statistics from WingX Advance.
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The 264,556 business aircraft departures worldwide in the first half of December represent a 2 percent decrease from the same period in 2021. In the U.S., New York City gateway Teterboro Airport represented nearly 5,000 of those departures, almost double those at Palm Beach International Airport in Florida, the next busiest. (Photo: Curt Epstein/AIN)

As worldwide business aviation wraps up a record year, activity was down by 2 percent in the first half of December versus the same period in 2021. However, it was still 10 percent above pre-Covid numbers, according to the latest statistics released by industry data tracker WingX Advance.

For the nearly complete year, global business aviation is up 10 percent year-over-year, 54 percent above pandemic-stricken 2020, and 14 percent over 2019 totals.