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Feb 03, 2015 (newstodate): The Norwegian aircraft broker Aircontact is looking back at a successful 2014 - and expects 2015 to land at about same levels.
-We did have a good year in 2014 and foresee a similar performance in 2015, but we will still have to work diligently to achieve this goal, says Christian Juul Moller, Aircontact Norway.
-We cover all market segments including NGOs and humanitarian operations, commercial air charters and governmental, including military, operations, but the relative weight of these segments keeps changing.
-Until recently, the military campaign in Afghanistan generated two weekly rotations between Afghanistan and Scandinavia as well as one aircraft operating inside the country. Now this volume has dropped to one rotation every two weeks reflecting the changed world situation.
-Similarly, we will not see much demand for all-freighter operations from Norway. Earlier we would arrange for uplift of large volumes of seafood, but now these volumes are mainly sent via Continental hubs and carried as belly cargo by passenger aircraft where capacity abounds.
-Humanitarian flights will always come and go, but we are seeing steady growth in the commercial segment where we are actually already fully engaged up to September/October this year, and there is even a shortage of available aircraft capacity in the market now.
-We are the market leader in Norway, mainly competing with two other brokers while the market also comprises several small-scale broker with limited volumes.
-In contrast to Denmark, we are not seeing new entrants in Norway and I would also doubt that the timing would allow for newcomers to achieve much success.
-The fact is that most large governmental tenders have now been closed, so there would not be much to pick up by a new competitor, such as Denmark's latest entrant in the market, Blackbird Air Charter, says Mr Juul Moller.
-We did have a good year in 2014 and foresee a similar performance in 2015, but we will still have to work diligently to achieve this goal, says Christian Juul Moller, Aircontact Norway.
-We cover all market segments including NGOs and humanitarian operations, commercial air charters and governmental, including military, operations, but the relative weight of these segments keeps changing.
-Until recently, the military campaign in Afghanistan generated two weekly rotations between Afghanistan and Scandinavia as well as one aircraft operating inside the country. Now this volume has dropped to one rotation every two weeks reflecting the changed world situation.
-Similarly, we will not see much demand for all-freighter operations from Norway. Earlier we would arrange for uplift of large volumes of seafood, but now these volumes are mainly sent via Continental hubs and carried as belly cargo by passenger aircraft where capacity abounds.
-Humanitarian flights will always come and go, but we are seeing steady growth in the commercial segment where we are actually already fully engaged up to September/October this year, and there is even a shortage of available aircraft capacity in the market now.
-We are the market leader in Norway, mainly competing with two other brokers while the market also comprises several small-scale broker with limited volumes.
-In contrast to Denmark, we are not seeing new entrants in Norway and I would also doubt that the timing would allow for newcomers to achieve much success.
-The fact is that most large governmental tenders have now been closed, so there would not be much to pick up by a new competitor, such as Denmark's latest entrant in the market, Blackbird Air Charter, says Mr Juul Moller.