Corporate, fractional and charter operators surpassed their hourly utilization performance from November 2025 to January 2026 when compared to the same period of 2024-25 and 2019-20, according to Aviation Week’s Tracked Aircraft Utilization data. Private individual operators show a 1% decrease compared to the same period a year ago and a33% increase compared to 2019-20.
The total hours for corporate operators – by far the largest of the four operator classes with a fleet that exceeds 21,500 aircraft – came to just under 1 million hr. over the three months. Hours were up year-over-year and 16% above the same period in 2019-20.
Fractional operators have collectively flown 12% more compared to a year ago and show a utilization growth of 75% over the same period of 2019-20.
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