Fractional private jet flights saw the biggest gain, up 9.4% year-over-year with Part 135 charter, jet card flights up 3.3%.
Private jet flight hours in North America recorded their second-best total in history in 2025.
ARGUS TRAQPak data shows 5,419,973 flight hours.
That’s up from 5,238,986 flight hours in 2024.
The gain represented a 3.5% increase year-over-year.
ARGUS projections for 2026, with a 1.9% increase, would bring flight hours to 5,522,952.
If the forecast holds, that would beat the previous all-time high of 5,502,093 flight hours from 2022.
Back to 2025.
All three operating categories finished positively year over year.
Fractional flight activity was the strongest segment in 2025.
It recorded a yearly growth of 9.4%.
That represented a yearly gain of 59,826 flights.
It remained the smallest category with 1,088,281 flight hours.
Part 135 covers jet cards and ad hoc charter flights.
These operators flew 41,471 more flights.
The segment finished the year up 3.3%.
There were 1,933,097 flight hours from Part 135 aircraft last year.
Part 91 flying is aircraft that are not on a charter certificate or in a fractional fleet and only fly for non-commercial flights on behalf of their owners.
Part 91 activity saw 13,520 more flights in 2025.
That equates to a 0.9% increase in flight activity.
However, flight hours were down slightly.
They fell from 2,401,116 to 2,398,585 hours.
The charter, jet card, and fractional aircraft flights continued to take a larger share of the market.
In 2025, they accounted for 55.75% of North American flight hours.
The slant to fractional ownership and jet card or charter solutions has been on the rise since 2012.
Back then, they accounted for just 43.75% of flight hours.
READ: Historic Private Jet Flight Hours 2007 to 2025
In terms of aircraft categories, midsize jets saw the biggest gain.
Midsize jet flights were up 4.2% year-over-year in North America.
Flight hours increase from 1,696,408 to 1,810,766 hours.
Small jets saw a 4.0% increase in flights.
Small jet flight hours increased from 1,143,949 to 1,222,093 hours.
Turboprops recorded a 2.6% increase in flights.
Flight hours by turboprops increased from 1,206,756 hours to 1,237,204 hours.
Large cabin jet flights increased 1.9%.
However, large-cabin flight hours were down from 1,149,910 hours.
In terms of flight distance, large-cabin jets had the longest average segment time.
The average large cabin jet was 2 hours, 16 minutes.
Midsizejets averaged 1 hour, 36 minutes in the air.
The average flight for light jets was 1 hour, 21 minutes.
The average turboprop flight was 1 hour, 15 minutes.
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