2 July 2026
Global Bizjet Activity
Global bizjet activity declined 0.7% year-on-year in Week 26 (22 – 28 June), with the year-to-date figure through 28 June at +3.7% ahead of last year, a full 1.0 percentage point increase compared to the 2025 vs 2024 trend across the same dates. While accounting for a combined 4% of total global bizjet traffic last week, Asia and Africa both saw roughly 2% expansion compared to Week 26 last year.
Chart 1: Global Bizjet Departures Trends YTD (1 January – 28 June)
Event Analysis: Looking Ahead to the Fourth of July Weekend at one of the World’s Busiest Bizjet Hubs
*This week’s event analysis looks ahead to this weekend’s Fourth of July holiday and business jet activity into New York City
New York’s business jet traffic consistently contracts over the Independence Day holiday. The 3 – 5 July 2025 window drew just over 680 bizjet arrivals into the NYC metro area, well below the 1,150 seen over a typical summer Thursday – Saturday period in NYC last year. 2024 saw a similar trend as activity slowed down while bizjet travellers spend time with friends and family rather travel into the city.
This year the holiday lands on a Saturday, while this summer, the city is seeing roughly 1,300 arrivals over a typical weekend. Two offsetting draws complicate the usual drawdown in traffic for 4th July: Taylor Swift’s wedding and a FIFA World Cup match in New Jersey, both which could pull additional traffic into NYC that would otherwise not travel. Jeff Bezos’ wedding in Venice last summer supports this argument when the late-June VVIP wedding near Venice lifted local arrivals nearly twice the everyday norm.
While the holiday dip could still appear for bizjets flying into NYC this weekend, a strong enough event pull could flatten the weekend overall.
Chart 2: NYC business jet arrivals 4th July weekend vs typical weekend
Regional Performance Analysis
North America
The North American market was flat last week year-on-year, with the US matching the region’s overall trend, +0.2%. Amongst top US states, Week 26 trends were a mixed bag. Florida bucked the overall trend, expanding 5.7% year-on-year, Texas held its own and saw 1.2% more traffic, while California struggled and declined 2.3%.
Chart 3: US business jet flights by aircraft segment YTD (1 January – 28 June)
Europe
European business jet activity contracted for another consecutive week, down 2.9% in Week 26, while the region’s top countries saw a variety of growth trends. France led growth amongst top countries last week, expanding 6.6%, trailed behind by the UK with 1.5% Week 26 growth, while Switzerland, Germany, and Italy all realized declines, -1.3%, -6.6%, and -13.2%, respectively.
Chart 4: Europe business jet flights by aircraft segment YTD (1 January – 28 June)
Rest of World
Business jet activity in regions outside Europe and North America saw a flat week of no expansion or contraction, while the Middle East showed a relatively positive week, although still down vs Week 26 2025. Africa led Week 26 growth at 2.4%, followed closely by Asia’s growth of 2.3%, while South America declined 1.1%, and the Middle East continued to decline, though only down 2.5%, a strong improvement compared to the 20%+ declines seen in recent weeks.
Chart 5: ROW business jet flights by aircraft segment YTD (1 January – 28 June)
Middle East Weekly Evolution Tracker
WINGX estimated fuel uplift data continues to provide the clearest lens through which to measure the cumulative and weekly toll of the conflict on Middle East business aviation. The WINGX pre-conflict baseline is Weeks 7 – 10 (9 February – 8 March). While the conflict outbreak occurred on 28 February in Week 9, the material impact on jet fuel pricing did not begin to be felt until the week of 9 March (Week 11), meaning Weeks 7 – 10 captures operating conditions before the fuel cost shock began cascading through the market. Across those four weeks, Middle East bizjet activity averaged 1.5M USG of estimated fuel uplift per week, establishing the baseline against which subsequent weeks in the table below are measured.
Chart 6: Weekly Middle East bizjet fuel uplift trends pre vs post conflict
Nick Koscinski, WINGX Analyst, comments: “With the Fourth of July holiday this weekend in the US, there is typically a slowdown in US bizjet traffic as travellers spend the weekend celebrating with friends and family. Even as one of the world’s largest bizjet hubs, NYC is not immune to this holiday trend, but with Taylor Swift’s wedding along with a World Cup match in New Jersey, the usual dip could get flattened out. This is another reminder of how marquee events can reshape traffic patterns we otherwise treat as predictable.”
In collaboration with JETNET, WINGX Managing Director Richard Koe and WINGX Analyst Nick Koscinski have developed the new recurring JETNET iQ Market Monitor report. The report sets out to provide market analysis across all JETNET Group coverage of business jet inventory, market, and flight activity. Please reach out to nick@wingx-advance.com for your copy of the report.
*For this week’s event analysis, WINGX has provided a surge analysis for the Fourth of July weekend using our proprietary AI prompts
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