Daily Insight Digest
Monday, April 13, 2026
San Diego KSAN Q1 Business Jet Movements Stable, NetJets + Flexjet Combined Hold 73% Share — San Francisco Route Surges 44% Reflecting Tech Business Recovery
★★ Q1 2026 San Diego KSAN business jet departures ~1,906 — essentially flat vs. Q1 2025 (−0.5%). NetJets leads with 966 movements (+8.4%); Flexjet at 442 saw the largest growth (+13.3%); the two combi...
BBGA and EBAA Terminate Dual-Membership Agreement — UK Business Aviation Completes Post-Brexit Institutional Decoupling at Association Level
★★ On its 50th anniversary (April 5), BBGA announced terminating its dual-membership agreement with EBAA (April 11) — echoing UK CAA's regulatory independence (independent eVTOL certification, UK Part...
Post-EBACE Cancellation, Geneva LSGG Will Lose ~215 Business Jet Premium Movements — Aero Friedrichshafen Fills Vacuum With 820 Exhibitors but Different DNA
★★★ EBACE 2026 was cancelled April 10. AviGo data shows 2025 EBACE-week Geneva LSGG business jet movements grew 21.5% vs. non-show weeks (1,216 vs. 1,001 movements), an extra 18 movements per day. Thi...
Colombia Business Jet Movements Maintain +16% Growth for Two Consecutive Years — Q1 2026 Reaches 7,808; AEG Fuels Positioning Is Timely
★★★ Colombia business jet market shows rare LatAm sustained high growth: full-year 2025 28,745 movements (YoY +16.4%); Q1 2026 continues at 7,808 (YoY +16.5%). Bogotá SKBO with 3,933 departures holds ...
Praetor 600 Per-Aircraft Utilization Rises YoY With Movements Growing Against the Trend, While Challenger 650 Movements Decline — Gulfstream Pre-Owned Scarcity Substitution Effect Diverges
★★★ Hagerty reports extreme pre-owned Gulfstream scarcity with rapid trade closure; G700 production ramp exacerbates supply-demand imbalance. AviGo data shows Q1 2026 Praetor 600, with active fleet sl...
Saudi Dammam OEDF Post-War Weekly Average Crashes 57% Persisting in Depression, While Jeddah OEJN Only −5.6% Shows Red Sea Side Resilience — Geography Determines Recovery Divergence
★★★ Following Iran war outbreak (Feb 28), Saudi Arabia's two major non-Riyadh airports showed dramatically different recovery trajectories. Dammam OEDF (Persian Gulf coast) saw post-war 6-week weekly-...
Trans-Continental Long-Haul Business Jet Flights Globally −6.4% YoY; Europe Departures Crash 18–27% but US +6%, China/Japan Grow Double-Digits Against the Trend
★★★ Between March 1 – April 11, 2026, global business jet flights with duration >5 hours declined 6.4% YoY (13,082 → 12,239). European segment broadly weakened: France −26.6%, Switzerland −25.6%, UK −...
Hormuz Strait Crisis Pushes European Jet Fuel Prices Sharply Higher — European Business Jet Movements Continue Declining With Southern Europe Growing Against the Trend
★★★ Hormuz Strait crisis drove European jet fuel benchmark prices sharply higher (significant increase); ACI Europe warned of systemic shortage risk in the short term. AviGo data shows European busine...