Global business aviation flight activity grew by 4 percent last year, according to JSSI’s 2013 year-end Business Aviation Index, which tracks the number of hours that business aircraft have flown by region, industry and aircraft type. This exceeds the 2.9 percent worldwide GDP growth that the International Monetary Fund estimates for 2013, JSSI said.
By industry, flight hours increased in the manufacturing, power/energy and real estate segments last year, but contracted in the construction, financial services and healthcare field…