Private Jet Flight Activity Analysis – 2023 – Week 37

WingX private jet flight activity shows overall demand is holding steady despite concerns of increasing slack in the charter market

Worldwide private jet flight activity (72,604 segments) increased by 2% from last week.

That put volume just 4% below Week 37’s activity from 2022.

“September’s global bizjet trends are falling into line with the summer-long delta of just under 5% compared to last year, holding 20% gains on 2019. The dominant U.S. market is tracking 4% below last year, overall activity buoyed by fractional fleets working harder than ever, with charter demand dropping off versus last year and corporate flight activity weakening,” says Richard Koe, Managing Director of WingX.

Overall, the U.S. was up 2% weekly with 50,031 movements, 5% under last year.

In Europe, flying way 1% up on a week-to-week basis with 13,262 flights, 7% below the same week in 2022.

Private Jet Flight Activity Analysis – 2023 – Week 37

Looking at the week ending Sept. 17, global private jet flying (36,429 segments) by the fractional and private jet operators was down 2% from last week and 3% from the same period the previous year.

The U.S. (24,819 flights) dipped 3% week-to-week and 4% from 2022.

Europe fractional and charter flying (9,771 segments were 2% above the previous week but 4% down year-over-year.

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At least for now, the bottom line seems more encouraging than discouraging.

So far this month (through Sept. 18), 179,272 business jet sectors have flown.

That’s 4.3% fewer than in September last year but 19.8% ahead of September 2019.