Private Jet Flight Activity Analysis – 2024 – Week 16

Worldwide private jet flight activity for the week ending April 21, 2024 (72,070) dipped 2% from the previous week.

That still put activity 4% ahead of Week 16 in 2023.

For a broader perspective, WingX Managing Director Richard Koe notes, “So far this month, global bizjet sectors are 4% ahead of last year, trailing April 2022 by 3%, and 37% ahead of April five years ago.

The U.S. market (49,429) remained 2% up on 2023’s numbers for both the most recent week and the trailing four-week period.

Among the biggest American markets, Florida was up 6% to last year for both the week and the trailing four weeks.

Overall, the U.S. is 30% ahead of pre-Covid 2019 in April.

Europe (10,101 flights) used an 11% week-to-week boost to generate a 2% year-over-year gain.

Italy, like last week, continued to see big gains.

PRIVATE JET FLIGHT ACTIVITY ANALYSIS – 2024 – WEEK 16

Source: WingX for Private Jet Card Comparisons. Includes Jets and VIP Airliners.

Charter and fractional operators were down 3% week-to-week, flying 35,203 segments.

They were flat compared to a year ago and over the past four weeks.

The U.S. (25,187 flights) were down 6% week-to-week yet still up 2% compared to a year ago.

PART 135/91K – PRIVATE JET FLIGHT ACTIVITY ANALYSIS – 2024 – WEEK 16

Source: WingX for Private Jet Card Comparisons. Includes Jets and VIP Airliners.

WingX reported in April that among the largest U.S. players, NetJets is 50.3% ahead of where it was in pre-pandemic 2019 with 32,358 flight hours.

Flexjet, which clocked 13,520 hours, was 170.3% ahead of 2019, at least for the first three weeks of April.