Business aircraft flight activity in Europe is expected to show only marginal growth of 0.3% in 2025, according to the latest projections from Argus International. Presenting data on Wednesday at the Corporate Jet Investor conference in London, Argus senior v-p of software Travis Kuhn said that the most significant monthly traffic growth will be 2% in November, while a 1.5% dip is expected in August.

The forecast for Europe is slightly stronger than the 0.2% traffic increase that Argus last month predicted for the North American market in 2025. Kuhn said that the first half of this year will be slightly busier in Europe than the second half.

In 2024, Argus recorded more than 4.8 million business aircraft flights globally, with the U.S. accounting for 64% of these departures. Collectively, activity in Europe accounted for 16.9% of all departures, while Canada stood at 4.4%.

“Between 2023 and 2024, the [traffic] trend in Europe was about 5% down after the post-Covid period [of strong growth], but we’re now starting to see some stabilization in Europe, as well as the U.S.,” Kuhn commented. “We saw this in the last few months of 2024, and there is now some optimism.”

In both 2023 and 2024, Tel Aviv Ben Gurion International Airport (LLBG) generated the highest number of business aircraft flights into European airports. A list of 25 airports in the Middle East, North Africa, North America, and Asia regions collectively accounted for the bulk of arrivals and departures.

According to Argus’ data, fractional ownership was by some distance the strongest driver of traffic growth in 2024, recording a 10.6% increase in flights. By contrast, Part 91 private operations and Part 135 charter activity decreased by 4.8% and 3.5%, respectively.