Hourly flown figures for the leading business aviation carriers – extracted from Aviation Week’s Tracked Aircraft Utilization – reveal that NetJets, Flexjet, Vistajet and FlyExclusive have all experienced an August-October 2024 utilization total superior to the same period of 2023. Wheels Up is the only featured operator with a negative year-on-year change, with a 5% decline below the same period of 2023. Meanwhile, all five carriers have experienced an increase above Aug-Oct 2019 activity.
Significantly larger in fleet size to the other featured operators, NetJets cumulated just under 170,000 hrs. during the period, having flown more than 55,000 hrs. per month consistently since February 2024. The leading business carrier had reached a record high of just over 60,000 hrs. in the months of March, May and October 2024.
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