Global business aviation achieved 2.7% growth in the first eight months of 2025 compared to the same period in 2024, with operators logging 3.9 million flights worldwide, according to data presented by WingX managing director Richard Koe during the 2025 JetNet iQ Summit last week in Washington, D.C. The growth translates to approximately 450 additional flights per day, with July and August 2025 setting new records for business jet activity.
North America continues to dominate the market, representing 67% of global flight activity, while maintaining steady year-over-year growth of 2.6%. The region has achieved a compound annual growth rate of 4% since 2019, reaching levels 32% higher than pre-pandemic activity. “We’re actually at a record level—2022 was the peak of the rebound after the pandemic. Then we saw a bit of a plateau in 2023 and 2024. Now in 2025, [there are] 32% more business jet sectors than in 2019,” Koe noted during his presentation. “The bizjet fleet over that time, if we’re counting unique units, was up about 20%. So we’ve actually seen an increase in sectors per aircraft.”
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