Nearly three-quarters of the FBOs in the U.S. and Canada saw higher fuel sales last year than they did in 2020, according to ABSG's annual industry survey.
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According to the Aviation Business Strategies Group s (ABSG) annual
FBO Fuel Sales Survey & 2021 Industry Forecast, nearly 70 percent of the North American FBOs it surveyed reported decreased fuel sales last year as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and its dampening effect on travel.
The report, which was released this morning, is typically distributed at the start of NBAA’s Schedulers & Dispatchers Conference, which itself is being held virtually this year due to Covid concerns, combined with the also-supplanted International Operators Conference on the NBAA Go platform.
According to ABSG principals John Enticknap and Ron Jackson, the results of the survey showed that while an additional 13 percent of the FBOs queried indicated they had the same level of fuel sales between 2019 and 2020, approximately 20 percent did report an increase in volume, including 12 percent that reported a more than 5 percent rise in fuel sales year-over-year despite