Air transport

NACE 51100

Current registrations448

Starters, 12 months · division 5136

Employment (FTE) · division 515,224

Median age · division 518.8 years

In NACE division 51, 7.0 companies per 100 started in the past twelve months, against 7.5 nationally; that is lower than that of 55% of the 87 NACE divisions with this figure. Comparison: as of 22-10-2026 05:30.

Key figures for NACE division 51

financial year 2025 · median over 220 filed annual accounts

Median solvency

41.5%

Median equity

€68,016

Median net result

€5,937

Annual accounts in sample

220

Foreign control in NACE division 51

357 registered companies

Companies with a foreign parent

0.8%

3 of 357; Belgium 0.3%

Staff at those companies

27%

1,494 of 5,537 FTE; Belgium 15%

Main parent countries: Switzerland (1), Germany (1) and Ireland (1).Show on the map by municipality

Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 51

29 employers

Median

€86,900

Belgium €61,400

Middle half

€66,800 to €97,300

half of the employers lie between

Place among sectors

6 of 78

sectors with a median staff cost per FTE, highest first

Employers with the highest staff cost per FTE in this division All sectors by staff cost In the Analysis workbench

Bankruptcies

past five years

Bankruptcies (5y)

Historical share

0.67%

Nationally, 1.61% of current registrations have a published bankruptcy opening in the past five years. This sector's historical share is lower than that of 69% of the 88 NACE divisions with this figure. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 51 is 0.4%, against 0.2% nationally, over 273 scored companies. Comparison: as of 22-10-2026 05:30.

Regional split

by region · 296 of 448 enterprises with a registered office on file

Flanders 196 · 66.2%

Wallonia 60 · 20.3%

Brussels 21 · 7.1%

Unknown 19 · 6.4%

Recent bankruptcies in this sector

Date	Company
07-05-2025	Air Belgium BE 0648.801.623
26-03-2024	Nabavieh, Kiarash BE 0758.827.931 · sole trader · Antwerpen
04-09-2023	BLUETAIL FLIGHT SCHOOL BE 0556.797.222

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the registered office

West Flanders WVL 38

East Flanders OVL 52

Antwerp ANT 48

Flemish Brabant VLB 34

Limburg LIM 24

Brussels BRU 21

Hainaut HAI 17

Walloon Brabant WBR 16

Namur NAM 7

Liège LIE 18

Luxembourg LUX 2

fewer moremax 52

Where are this sector's balance sheets registered? By municipality, down to the address

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number

Flemish subsidies €9.8m awarded 32 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Werkingssubsidie S&S Nv Kortrijk-Wevelgem
Wallonia-Brussels Federation €16,000 paid 1 recipient · 2025 · largest: Dépenses de toute nature pour le financement de projets divers en liaison avec la politique de l'enseignement
EU budget €653,576 attributed share 3 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Decentralised Agencies, Joint Undertakings, EU institutions
EU research €552,960 eu contribution 2 recipients · 2016 to 2021 · largest: Horizon 2020

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How these figures are counted

Current enterprise registrations are counted through their registered main activities; establishment units are excluded. Counted in the KBO's NACE 2025 nomenclature, the one in which code 51100 exists.

Share of currently registered companies with a published bankruptcy opening in the past five years. Registered main activities in the selected classification can overlap. This retrospective share is not a future bankruptcy probability.

The comparison with the country and with the other NACE divisions comes from a nightly overview of every division, each counted in the nomenclature in which it exists. A standing such as "higher than 80%" counts the other divisions that have the figure. The bankruptcy probability is the median of our nightly score over the division's companies that have one; the count is stated.

The key figures cover the whole NACE division 51, not NACE 51100 on its own: there are too few filed annual accounts per five-digit code to compute them separately. The middle company of the sector, based on all filed annual accounts.