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According to WingX's weekly Global Market Tracker, cargo activity continues to increase YOY. European activity is weakest, with commercial airline activity down by 68 per cent in February and business aviation flights sliding by 22 per cent. Business aviation trends continue to diverge widely from region to region, with North America 10 per cent below YOY, Asia just one per cent under, flights in Africa down by eight per cent and activity up in South America and Oceania.

Richard Koe, the managing director of WingX, said the private jet sector – also referred to as business aviation – offered “an on-call and convenient means of connectivity, essential as gaps appear in the scheduled networks.”

WingX noted that last year, 80 percent of the visitors arrived from out of state, with 250 international arrivals, 100 of which were large jets. This year, more than half of the arrivals came from within Florida.

The number of flights undertaken by scheduled airlines was down by 49% in 2020 on a year earlier whereas business flights were down by only 24%, according to WingX, a private-aviation data firm.

According to aviation data specialist WINGX, the number of business jets in operation globally was down just 9 per cent year on year in January, versus a 50 per cent year-on-year decline for passenger aircraft.

Private-jet travel is booming amid travel restrictions and flight groundings for commercial airlines

Meanwhile, some 5,000 private jets from around 85 different countries land in Barcelona in a typical year, up from fewer than 4,500 five years ago, according to data from aviation analyst Wing X.

While the number of commercial flights from the UK has dropped by three-quarters since the start of the pandemic, private flights are down only 42% compared with 2019, according to the aviation consultancy WingX.

Over the holidays, international private jet flights had been picking up. Flights from the U.S. to Antigua jumped 70%, while Turks and Caicos flights increased 41%, Saint Martin saw a 32% jump, and Mexico flights surged 17%, according to data from WingX.