Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, well-to-do travelers have been motivated to avoid the close of quarters of airline cabins, and the stampede to private air travel has yet to abate. But just as new business jet sales begin to take off after more than a decade in the doldrums, some plane makers are temporarily stuck on the sidelines unable to fully capitalize on the upswing.
The timing of the long-awaited sales uptick couldn’t have come at a worse for time for General Dynamics’ Gulfstream division, which reported fourth-quarters order activity beyond anything seen since 2008 and a sales backlog up 40% from the year before. At the same time the company is bringing wing production in-house and acquiring another set of tools and fixtures, all of which stifles adding any more production capacity much before 2023.
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