Air Ambulance is a comprehensive term covering the use of air transportation, airplane or helicopter, to move patients to and from healthcare facilities and accident scenes. Personnel provide comprehensive prehospital and emergency and critical care to all types of patients during aeromedical evacuation or rescue operations aboard helicopter and propeller aircraft or jet aircraft.
Air ambulance services are advanced and sophisticated medical services extended through the use of use of air transportation, airplane, or helicopters. They are the most efficient mode of shifting critical patients to hospitals as they consume much less travel time. Air ambulances have onboard medical treatment facilities and trained medical crew to treat patients in an emergency until they reach the hospital. These services are effective in serving people in war-torn areas and those affected by natural disasters. They also assist in the event of an outbreak of epidemics.
A trend helping to boost market growth is the increased breadth of insurance coverage. Improving reimbursement methods, either by the government or health insurance companies in developing countries like China and India for emergency ambulance services, will propel the overall market potential for the air ambulance market.
A key growth driver is the rise in the number of service providers. Air ambulance transport has been gaining considerable recognition in the western regions and has started to witness an influx in developing markets as well. India has been a key country and has seen significant growth for air ambulance services. The increase in service providers such as Falck, EMSOS, Saras Ambulance, Air Ambulance World, and Wheels India has witnessed a high market potential in India.
Over the next five years, LPI(LP Information) projects that Air Ambulance will register a 5.2% CAGR in terms of revenue, reach US$ 9500 million by 2023, from US$ 7030 million in 2017.
This report studies the global market, especially in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, South America, Middle East and Africa, focuses on the top 5 players in each region, with sales, price, revenue and market share from 2013 to 2018, the top players:
- Air Methods
- Air Medical Group Holdings
- PHI
- Metro Aviation
- Rega
- DRF
- ADAC Service GmbH
- Royal Flying Doctor Service
- REVA Air Ambulance
- AMR
- FAI
- Capital Air Ambulance
- Native American Air Ambulance
- Lifeguard Ambulance
- MED FLIGHT
- Scandinavian AirAmbulance
- Airmed International
- Yorkshire Air Ambulance
- JAIC
- Deer Jet
Market Segment by Regions, this report splits Global into several key Regions, with sales, revenue, market share of top players in these regions, from 2013 to 2018 (forecast), like
- North America (United States, Canada and Mexico)
- Asia-Pacific (China, Japan, Southeast Asia, India and Korea)
- Europe (Germany, UK, France, Italy and Russia etc.)
- South America (Brazil, Chile, Peru and Argentina)
- Middle East and Africa (Egypt, South Africa, Saudi Arabia)
Split by Product Types, with sales, revenue, price, market share of each type, can be divided into
Split by applications, this report focuses on sales, market share and growth rate in each application, can be divided into
- Aid Applications
- Transport Applications
- Doctor’s Attendance Application
- Others