Business aviation services provider Argus International is extending the reach of its TraqPak FBO market analysis program into Europe. Argus (Booth J30) has integrated the program with Eurocontrol, enabling TraqPak FBO to track flight data for FBOs and airports throughout Europe.
This will help provide more insight into the European FBO market and extend the flight data available to TraqPak customers, Argus said. Eurocontrol, which has 41 member and two “comprehensive agreement” states, manages more than 10 million flights per year.
“We are especially excited to support the European FBO community with a flight-activity tracking and analysis system that will improve their operational efficiency, customer service and support, and communication between locations if they are part of an FBO network,” said Shirley Mason, executive v-p of market intelligence for Argus.
The web-based TraqPak FBO program provides live flight tracking that is integrated with TraqPak’s historical activity data and analysis, FlightView aircraft movement data, and Flight Global Ascend aircraft owner/operator contact information.
According to Argus's latest TraqPak data for North America, business aircraft activity climbed 2.6 percent year-over-year in the U.S. and Canada last month. This was largely thanks to “strong demand” in the private operations (U.S. Part 91) market, which rose 4.1 percent, with gains across all aircraft categories in this segment. The 1.3 percent rise logged by air charter operators (U.S. Part 135) was more muted than in months past, when the operations category had been leading the recovery in flight hours. Fractional flying (U.S. Part 91K) eked out a 0.6 percent increase.
All aircraft categories saw increases last month in North America, led by a 4.7 percent year-over-year increase in large-cabin jet flying, Argus said. This was followed by turboprops, which jumped 2.6 percent; midsize jets, up 2.2 percent; and light jets, up 1.8 percent.
The only double-digit gain in individual categories last month was in air charter large-cabin jet activity, which rose 11.8 percent from a year ago. Paradoxically, fractional large-cabin jet flying sank by 19.9 percent from April 2017.
