Business jet activity continues to grow YOY, more than 3% gains in H1 2025 in stark contrast to last year´s stagnant market. The growth is influenced by the US market, notably in Texas and Florida, with the charter and fractional operators flourishing. The bizjet market in Europe is slack, with key markets seeing a drop-off compared to last year´s surge in demand around the EURO tournament. There was a relatively large number of movements in the Middle East, noting flights exiting the region from Jordan and Qatar.
Global
In the last week, Week 25 (16th – 22nd June), global bizjet activity grew 6% compared to Week 24 last year, marking the 9th consecutive week of year-on-year growth. So far this year just 5 weeks have fallen short of 2024 activity levels. Global Part135 & 91K activity grew 8% compared to Week 25 last year, the last four-week trend now 5% ahead of comparable last year.
In the most recent week, conflict between Israel and Iran intensified, resulting in just 22 bizjet flights out of Israel, and a shakeup of bizjet activity out of countries in the Gulf. For example, there were 100 additional bizjet departures out of the UAE in the last week compared to W25 in 2024, and 14% fewer departures from Qatar compared to W25 last year.
Year to date (1st January – 22nd June), global bizjet activity is 3% ahead of last year, almost 1.8 million sectors flown. Global bizjet flying hours are also up 3% compared to last year, almost reaching 3 million hours flown. The month to date (1st – 22nd June) trend stands at +5% vs June last year.
Chart 1: Global bizjet departures by week in the last 12 months
North America
In Week 25 business jet activity in the United States grew 8% compared to Week 25 last year, the last four-week trend standing at +5% compared to last year. Part 135 and Part 91K sectors grew 11% compared to last year, the four-week trend standing at +7%. There were strong gains across the core US bizjet States of Florida and California, departures up 9% in both States. Texas was the standout State, activity jumped 17% compared to Week 25 last year. In the last week many Texas airports had strong growth, notably KAUS, KADS and KHOU. Roughly 40% of flights out of airports in the State last week were to other airports in Texas, busiest out of State connection was Colorado. Mexico was the top international destination, followed by the Bahamas. Month to date Texas is the second busiest US State in terms of bizjet departures, activity 6% ahead of last year.
Chart 2: Business jet departures from US States, June 2025
Month to date, the US business jet market is 6% ahead of last year. Flights to Canada have fallen 7% compared to June last year, flights to Mexico just 1% ahead of June last year. There are strong tailwinds on trans-Atlantic routes, connections to the UK up 10%, France up 8% and Italy up 28%.
Europe
In Week 25, European bizjet activity decreased 1% compared to Week 25 last year, aircraft flying on a commercial AOC flew 2% fewer flights than Week 25 last year. Germany recorded 27% declines last week, highlighting the surge in bizjet traffic when the country hosted the EUROS Football tournament last summer. Activity out of the UK and Switzerland in the last week is behind last year, departures down 2% and 1% respectively.
The 2025 NATO Summit takes place this week in the Hague, Netherlands on June 24 – 25th. Ahead of the Summit, bizjet arrivals into nearby Rotterdam (EHRD) began peaking across the weekend, lifting the month to date trend at the airport to +24%. On Sunday 22nd June 18 bizjet arrivals were recorded at EHRD, up from 7 on the previous Sunday. Of the 18 arrivals, 9 were operated by Aircraft Management programmes and 8 by Branded Charter operators.
Chart 3: Business jet flight hours by operator type, Europe, June 2025
Elsewhere, Jeff Bezos’ wedding this week in Venice is likely to draw an influx of bizjets to nearby airports. Already, bizjet activity last weekend has risen significantly, last Sunday (22nd June) 33 arrivals were recorded at LIPZ and LIPH airports, up from 17 arrivals on the previous Sunday.
Rest of World
Outside of Europe and the United States, bizjet activity in the rest of world regions was 7% above Week 25 last year. Asia recorded 5% gains in Week 25, flights from Africa up by 4%, in contrast flights from South America were down 1% year on year. As conflict between Iran and Israel intensified last week, bizjet activity in the Middle East region grew 22% compared to W25 last year. Bizjet departures from Jordan were >100% year on year in the last week, notable rises on flights to Cyprus and Greece. Flights out of Israel in the last week were down by almost two thirds, 12 of the 22 flights departing in the last week headed for Cyprus and Greece.
Chart 4: Business jet departures from countries outside of Europe and United States, June 2025.
