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Aggregated hourly flight hour figures for the world’s leading business aviation carriers--extracted from Aviation Week Network’s Tracked Aircraft Utilization--show that NetJets, Flexjet, VistaJet, Wheels Up and Fyexclusive all experienced a Q3 2025 utilization superior to the same period of 2024. Totals for all five operators were also above Q3 2019.
Flexjet stands out, showing a 20% year-on-year increase during the focused period. Meanwhile, the carrier’s total comes to an increase of 136% over the same period from 2019.
Significantly larger in fleet size to the other featured operators, NetJets cumulated just over 185,000 hrs. during the three-month period, having flown more than 60,000 monthly hrs. from March to September.




