Private jet charter and fractional operators ranked by flight hours
Which private jet operators are the biggest based on charter and fractional flight hours?
Our annual report ranks the 30 largest private jet operators in the United States.
Below are links to the annualized data from 2020 to the present.
Private jet operators are ranked by flight hours and market share.
Key players include NetJets, Flexjet, VistaJet, Wheels Up, FlyExclusive, Solairus Aviation, PlaneSense, Jet Linx, Airshare, Nicholas Air, Jet Aviation, Thrive Aviation, Baker Aviation, Northern Jet, Fly Alliance, Clay Lacy, ATI Jet (Jetvia), Cirrus Aviation Services, STA Jets, Worldwide Jet Charter, SC Aviation, SilverHawk Aviation, Ventura Air Services, Hera Flight, and others.
The ranking compares total flight hours for the 30 largest private jet operators, year-over-year change, and market share.
What’s included in our analysis of private jet company flight hours?
We use this analysis, based on data from ARGUS TRAQPak, to combine operators under their corporate parents, which is becoming increasingly important amid the industry’s M&A activity.
As noted, that means adding Part 135 and Part 91k fractional flight-hour data from separate operators owned by the same parent, for example, NetJets, NetJets Europe flights to North America, and Executive Jet Management.
Aircraft arrival and departure information is included on all IFR flights in the U.S. (including Alaska and Hawaii), Canada, and the Caribbean. That means flights from Vista’s Air Hamburg and VistaJet’s Malta AOC in the North American region are included in the total, and the same applies to other operators. They are noted at the bottom of the chart below.
Lastly, it’s important to understand the limitations of tracking for aircraft operating under Part 135.
It’s also important to note that 135 operations are aircraft-specific. That means some of the flight hours tracked under these aircraft could be for Part 91 flying.
That’s because an aircraft owner, when using their private jet, flies under Part 91. It flies under the Part 135 rules when used for charter flights.
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