Approximately 11.3 percent of Europe’s fleet of private jets may be blocked from flying, according to research from London-based Colibri Aircraft, which specialises in the marketing, resale and purchase of pre-owned private aircraft.

This is because it could be uneconomical to upgrade these 219 planes with a new monitoring system that becomes mandatory to have by 7 June 2020, effectively prohibiting them from flying.

As a result, Colibri Aircraft predicts that many of these aircraft will be broken up and sold off as parts as the cost of compliance becomes economically unjustifiable when compared with the value of the ...