Antoine Fafard
October 29, 2025

Business jet on tarmac

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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.

 

Antoine Fafard

Antoine works as an analyst with the Aviation Week Network, focusing on commercial fleets and MRO.