Argus: North America Gains in Bizav Ops Ebbed in 2022
Argus said bizav activity last year still remained up by 5.1 percent over 2021 operations in North America, but was mostly flat in last nine months.
Gulfstream G650ER in flight over ocean
Large cabin jet operations led the year-over-year gains in 2022, with an increase of 11.4 percent. (Photo: Gulfstream Aerospace)

Business aircraft flight activity in North America last year ended up by 5.1 percent over 2021 but traffic remained largely flat for the last three quarters of 2022, according to Argus International’s year-end analysis released on Friday. “We began 2022 in arguably the strongest position business aviation has ever been in, but we ended 2022 with some of the first activity losses since the pandemic began to loosen its grip on air travel,” says Argus’s "2022 North America Business Aviation Review."

Traffic continued to surge in the first quarter of 2022, up 23.2 percent year-over-year. But the last nine months of the year combined for just a 0.4 percent gain over the same period in 2021. This was still well above pre-pandemic levels, up 15.2 percent from 2019. While activity was up in the single digits in 2022, flight hours soared 10.6 percent from 2021, Argus added.  

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