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To view this page ensure that Adobe Flash Player version 9.0.124 or greater is installed. In 2005, nearly 100,000 different airport pairs were flown by business aviation. Of these airport pairs, only 5% had a scheduled alternative: at least one scheduled flight per working day. (Here, a flight from air-port A to B is separate from a flight from B to A, so one per working day gives a there-and-back-in-a-day option to travellers.) Figure 16 shows these data and emphasises just how little overlap there is between airport-pairs served by scheduled and business aviation. Of course, as we have already discussed, specific customer demand and difficulties of airport access mean that business aviation often flies to different airports than scheduled: Madrid/Torrejon rather than Barajas; Paris/Le Bourget rather than Charles de Gaulle; London/Luton, Farnborough and several others instead of Heathrow or Gatwick. Only two of the busiest ten airports overall have more than 3% business avi-ation (see Figure 44 in appendix B.) Even if we switch to looking at city pairs, the pattern remains. In Figure 17, major airports at cities such as London and Paris have been grouped together. The overall number of pairs of cities is of course smaller. In this figure, the size of the bubble indicates the number of business flights. It is clear that a significant portion of business aviation is between a few cities well-served by scheduled airlines (four or more times/day in each direction). However, most of the traffic and the large majority of the routes are between cities that have an infrequent scheduled service, i.e. less than weekly. So, both in terms of airport-pairs and city-pairs, business aviation fills a gap in the schedules. 22
Maximum Frequency of Scheduled Service on this City Pair
Although there is relatively little business aviation traffic, at airports it generates more and bigger peaks at short notice compared to scheduled traffic. This therefore consumes a disproportionate amount of flow-management resources. 中国公务机网 www.gongwuji.com 公务机翻译 www.aviation.cn 本文链接地址：Getting to the Point Business Aviation in Europe(19) |
