The Air Ambulance Services sector includes air rescue transports such as helicopters and fixed-winged aircraft specially designed to evacuate the sick or wounded.
Over the next five years, market income is projected to rise by an annualized 1.6 percent to $4.2 billion, with a milder 0.7 percent increase in 2020.
During this time, the industry has seen increasing demand as a result of an ageing demographic, hospital and healthcare provider restructuring, and declining access to quality healthcare in rural areas.
While the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic is expected to increase demand for inter-facility patient transfers from remote facilities and those that have surpassed capacity, the pandemic’s recessionary factors have delayed revenue growth significantly.
Profitability is still projected to fall in 2020.