Jet card sellers call peak days by many names. In all cases they impact how you can fly. These providers have the fewest in 2025.
Peak Days – or whatever providers call them – Premium Days, Advance Booking Days, Restricted Days, and Blackouts can significantly impact your flying.
Three main changes to your flying are imposed on peak days.
Nothing of them is good for you.
Some programs also have blackout dates.
We considered blackout dates as part of our peak days comparison.
All the programs and providers in this list included fixed/capped hourly rates and guaranteed availability.
In most cases, there is a longer window to book.
There’s often a longer window to cancel.
There can also be more restrictive cancelation terms.
Some programs have a 100% post-booking penalty on peak days.
So, longer booking and cancelation terms can impact how you use your program.
We track this in our comparisons and custom analysis based on your flying needs.
There is also a flexible departure time.
Providers can move your flight by as much as +/- 4 hours for your specified time.
There goes that extra round of golf.
It can also impact your plan to leave after the kids leave school.
Fly Alliance and Jets.com now guarantee departure time even on peak days, although the latter didn’t make our list of the fewest peak days.
Then there are surcharges.
Surcharges can run as high as 50%.
In other cases, the provider only offers dynamic pricing on those dates.
There is some good news overall.
Peak Days dropped by 1.6 dates to 44.6 average peak days quarter-to-quarter at the end of 2024.
That’s still above the 22.8 average peak days for programs in Q4 of 2019.
We call that BC, or Before Covid.
| PEAK DAYS (hours) | 2019 Q4 | 2020 Q4 | 2021 Q4 | 2022 Q4 | 2023 Q4 | 2024 Q1 | 2024 Q2 | 2024 Q3 | 2024 Q4 |
| Overall | 22.8 | 24.4 | 39.3 | 55.7 | 47.4 | 47.5 | 46.4 | 46.2 | 44.6 |
Source: Private Jet Card Comparisons
Year-over-year peak days were down from 47.5 days at the end of 2023 to 44.6 days.
| PEAK DAYS (hours) | Change from Q3 2024 | Change from Q2 2024 | Change from Q1 2024 | Change from Q4 2023 | Change from Q4 2022 | Change from Q4 2021 | Change from Q4 2020 | Change from Q4 2019 |
| Overall | -3.5% | -3.9% | -6.2% | -6.0% | -19.9% | 13.4% | 82.7% | 95.5% |
Source: Private Jet Card Comparisons
Sequentially, the high-demand days dropped 3.5%.
These days have declined since the end of 2022, down 19.9%.
However, they are still 95.5% higher than back in 2019.
| Provider | Program – Comments | Peak/High-Demand/Blackout Days |
| G.J. Priester Aviation | 1945 Card – Atlanta, Chicago, Denver area flyers | 0 |
| Jettly | Jet Card – New program from 2023 | 0 |
| VistaJet | Program – Starts at 50 hours per year and requires a 3-year subscription | 10 |
| Magellan Jets | Business and Premium Jet Cards | 20 |
| VistaJet | VJ25 – Starts at 25 hours per year and requires a 3-year subscription | 20 |
| Wheels Up | Membership and Business | 20 |
| Outlier Jets | Jet Card | 21 |
| Northern Jet | Jet Card | 25 |
| Sentient Jet | SJ and SJ+ | 25 |
| Fly Alliance | Jet Card | 28 |
| Hera Flight | Jet Card | 28 |
| Jet Linx | Jet Card | 28 |
| Air Charter Service | Empyrean Jet Card – Gold and Platinum | 29 |
| Leviate Air Group | Jet Card | 29 |
| Nicholas Air | Blue Card, Rise Card | 29 |
| BC Flight | Jet Card | 31 |
| Jet AI | Jet Card | 31 |
| Airstream Jets | Gold and Silver Card | 34 |
| FlyExclusive | JetClub | 35 |
Source: Private Jet Card Comparisons V45 2025
Last year, just eight providers had 35 or fewer peak days.
This year, 18 providers had 35 or fewer high-demand days.
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