📉 Lima SPJC Sees Monthly Recovery, Yet Year-over-Year Gap Still Reaches 21.5%
Lima's Jorge Chávez Airport (SPJC) has followed a "warm inside, cold outside" curve in business jet traffic this year: on a month-by-month basis it is steadily recovering, but when compared against the same period last year, the gap remains significant. Avi-Go data shows that in 2026, business jet movements at the airport climbed month by month from 90 in January to a peak of 123 in April, after which they held at a high plateau of 115 to 120, with a cumulative 748 movements since the start of the year (as of July 21); however, the combined total for January through May of 550 represents a 21.5% decline from the 701 recorded in the same period of 2025, mainly because the abnormal peaks of March (173 movements) and May (165 movements) last year did not recur this year. Destinations centered on Peruvian domestic regional routes such as Pucallpa (19 movements), Chiclayo, and Cusco, complemented by cross-border points such as Punta Cana (16 movements) and Santiago.
Impact: SPJC's monthly plateau has stabilized, indicating that baseline demand is normal, and the year-over-year gap stems more from the high-base disturbance of individual months last year rather than structural contraction; the route structure dominated by domestic regional destinations means that capacity allocation is more sensitive to the rhythm of domestic Peruvian travel.
Recommendation: Operators and FBOs serving SPJC should base their capacity scheduling for August on the stable monthly plateau, without configuring redundant slots according to last year's peak months; at the same time, they should lock in ground handling and slot resources for high-frequency regional routes such as Pucallpa and Cusco to consolidate the recovery momentum.