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Getting to the Point Business Aviation in Europe(13)

时间:2011-11-24 11:16来源:蓝天飞行翻译 作者:公务机

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Until recently, supersonic jets seemed relevant only to the long-term forecast. Two companies (Aerion and SAI) are planning jets that are expected to launch around 2012/2013, but though supersonic aircraft could be a market successes in the long term, in the next ten years they are expected to have only a small market niche and not to make a great impact on the general business aviation market activity due to high prices (~$80M). Aerion’s forecast suggests a demand for 250-300 air-craft worldwide over ten years.


Business aviation is the real point-to-point form of air travel. This generates time savings which make it a commercial proposition, not a luxury, but it also spreads the already small volumes of such air traffic amongst a large number of small airports: only 30% of business aviation departures are from airports with more than 100 IFR departures/ day. The challenge is to provide the infrastructure that is needed at other small airports.
There has been much discussion of the relative mer-its of point-to-point and hub-and-spoke operations for scheduled aviation, but it is business aviation that provides the ultimate in point-to-point service. In many cases, the main reason for taking business avi-ation rather than a scheduled service is that it takes the customer from the nearest airport to their starting point to the nearest airport to their destination. This saves time in ground transfers and in aircraft changes. An hour in a turbo-prop might cost €2000, a jet €3000-€6000, but if you are a large multinational company needing frequent transfers of staff between offices in cities that are not linked by scheduled serv-ices, if you need rapid access to a once-a-year event, or if you have factories to visit where labour costs are low and transport infrastructure less developed, then the business case can be made.
In addition to the specific requirements from pas-sengers to fly to the nearest airport, in any case there can be difficulty in accessing the largest airports. Many of the bigger airports in Europe are geared to scheduled traffic:
 
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