The mood at the Regional Meeting was upbeat, with delegates reporting that while there was very little good news in the market, things weren’t quite as bad as they’d feared. AOPA Sweden’s Lars Hjelmberg, who owns the aviation fuel company Hjelmco Oil, reported that across Europe, sales of avgas were down by about 40 percent. The economic recession has, of course, come on top of the imposition of new avgas taxes in many countries.
*A full report on the 121st Regional Meeting of IAOPA Europe will be printed in the AOPA UK magazine General Aviation on December 1st. The magazine is available in many countries, but can also be read online on the IAOPA Europe website www.iaopa.eu