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Oct 27, 2020 (newstodate): The Covid-19 pandemic is holding Europe's, and indeed the world's, civil aviation in a tight grip.
   Much affected is also the business aviation segment, as documented in October 2020 by the European Business Aviation Association.
   -More than seven months after the beginning of the crisis and the grounding of almost all European airplanes until April, it is still difficult to have an overview of the impact of the pandemic on Bubsiness aviation, EBAA says.
   Business aviation in France remains down 33 percent, y-o-y, during January-August; the UK market is down 37 percent, and business aviation in Germany is down 25 percent, y-o-y.
   However, EBAA finds Scandinavia an exception from the general picture in Europe.
   -Scandinavia is a market apart in the European landscape. Firstly, Scandinavian governments took a softer approach toward restrictions, compared to other countries, and secondly those countries heavily depend on aviation as an internal means of transportation.
   -One of the main characteristics is the preponderance of domestic flights (between 60 and 80 percent of air traffic in normal times). As a consequence, the decline has been much less than anywhere else in Europe - down 50 percent at the worst of the crisis.
   Still, EBAA finds that the over-all drop in Scandinavia's business aviation is 27 percent, y-o-y, in January-August 2020 - and in July-August 2020 the decline was "only" 20 percent.
   By comparison, the Italian business aviation market dropped as much as 87 percent, y-o-y, at the nadir of the crisis, and in France, the industry dipped as low as 80 percent at the worst.