“The U.S. represents a higher portion of the opportunity,” Embraer Executive Jets Marketing Director Luciano Froes said in a telephone interview. “It’s a market that is very prone for the midsize and super-midsize cabin planes and we’re well positioned there.”

One positive sign for planemakers: The supply of used jets, which can draw customers away from new models, has dropped to about 9 percent of the fleet from about 16 percent in 2009, Honeywell said.

This year’s deliveries probably will total 675 to 725 planes, excluding converted airliners and entry-level aircraft, Honeywell said. That probably will drop next year, Park said, before new models including Dassault Aviation SA’s Falcon 5X, Gulfstream’s G500 and Bombardier’s Global 7000, start arriving in 2017 and 2018, Park said. The industry peaked at 1,136 shipments in 2008.

“We’re just slogging along,” said Janine Iannarelli, president of Par Avion Ltd., a Houston based plane brokerage. “There is a shortage of buyers, there’s limited activity and prices keep correcting.”

First « 1 2 » Next