Posts by Hermans

The Embraer Phenom 300 logged 20,112 flights in April 2026 — more than any other business jet, and one of the few models that grew year-over-year while the global market contracted 5%. The reason isn't cyclical. It's structural: roughly three-quarters of the active fleet is flown under fractional ownership or direct private ownership, where utilization is a contractual obligation rather than a discretionary purchase.

North America accounted for 75.49% of global business jet flights in April 2026, in line with a remarkably stable 74.6%–77.4% range maintained for the seven months prior. The narrative that 'the rest of the world is catching up' is not visible in the data — and the reasons are structural, not cyclical: U.S. tax treatment of business aircraft, the fractional ownership market structure, corporate headquarters density, and a 5,000+ paved-runway airport infrastructure that no other region replicates.

Teterboro Airport (KTEB) is the world's busiest dedicated business aviation airport — 9,978 movements in April 2026, an average of 332 daily. Across the past seven months, the field has averaged 11,065 monthly movements, or roughly one takeoff or landing every three minutes during its 16-hour operating window. The reasons it cannot be replicated are structural: a 60-year head start, the densest financial market on earth 12 miles to the east, three FBOs whose combined throughput capacity does not exist anywhere else, and a slot-control regime that prevents it from being eclipsed.