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PrivateFly shares charter analysis

The UK-headquartered online booking platform has shared its clients' most popular aircraft, destination trends and other flight demand statistics in its private jet charter trends report, which looks at the booking and flying behaviour of its global on-demand customers during January to March 2018.

Cessna dominates with five models in the top ten while PrivateFly's most-chartered long range jet is the Gulfstream GIV. The private jet booking service has seen over 100,000 flight searches per month on its website and app.

CEO Adam Twidell says: "While we flew clients on 81 different models of charter aircraft in the first quarter of this year, some are clearly more popular than others. Many factors influence a customer's choice of aircraft but several Cessna models continue to hit a sweet spot of reliability, availability and price.

"But Cessna ought to be looking over its shoulder at the HondaJet this summer. It's not yet in our top ten but we are getting very positive feedback from our customers who are using it, and availability in Europe is now starting to increase.

"The Gulfstream GIV is proving very popular for longer flights. More cost-effective and with greater availability than its newer Gulfstream siblings, rival Falcons or Globals, it still packs the power, range and reputation needed for transatlantic or transcontinental routes."

Other findings show that the top three global destinations were London, Paris and Los Angeles. The average flight duration was three hours and four minutes and the busiest day of the quarter for take-offs was 29 March, the start of the Easter weekend. The proportion of global customers using mobile devices is now equal to desktop users at 46 per cent.

 

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