How Many Hours A Year Do Private Jets Fly?

By Doug Gollan, July 12, 2017

XOJET and JetSuite have the busiest fleets of any private jet membership programs

The Top 20 Part 135 charter operators by blight hours averaged 448 hours of flying per aircraft compared to the 3,000 to 4,000 hours per year commercial airliners fly, based on the 2016 hours flown and fleet size as reported by ARGUS.

According to the ARGUS data, XOJET’s fleet of 41 Challenger 300 and Citation X was the busiest of any top operator, averaging 1,090 hours per aircraft, some 330 hours more than second place JetSuite at 760 hours per aircraft. TMC, which had the third highest utilization rate with 681 hours per plane shares common ownership with XOJET. GAMA Aviation, the operator for Wheels Up was slightly ahead of Delta Private Jets with an average of 580 flying hours per aircraft compared to 559 hours.

Operator	Average Annual Hours/Aircraft	2016 Hours	Fleet Size
XOJET	1,090	44,689	41
JetSuite	760	15,201	20
TMC	681	41,552	61
Gama Aviation	580	54,533	94
Delta Private Jets	559	36,926	66
Aero Air	460	10,120	22
Corporate Flight	455	12,751	28
Solairus Aviation	408	19,604	48
Talon Air	406	9,343	23
Zetta Jet	401	8,020	20
Executive Jet Management	370	49,218	133
Meridien Air Charter	369	8,117	22
Jet Edge	364	17,455	48
Jet Aviation	359	12,913	36
Jet Select	334	10,031	30
Priester Aviation	302	9,975	33
Jet Linx Aviation	294	23,851	81
Avjet	294	7,933	27
Landmark Aviation	276	14,889	54
Clay Lacy Aviation	260	12,988	50
Top 20 Average	448	21,005	47