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How much does a private jet from New York to Miami cost? Light jets start at $15,000, midsize at $22,000, heavy at $38,000. Real ADS-B tracking data from 7 months shows 620–853 monthly movements on America's busiest private jet corridor.

The Los Angeles–Las Vegas corridor ranked #1 globally for three consecutive months (Oct–Dec 2025), averaging 1,047 flights per month. A light jet costs $8,000–$14,000 on this 45-minute route — the world's most active private jet corridor by volume.

London to Geneva is Europe's premier ski-season private jet corridor. Geneva airport saw 3,125 movements in March 2026 — 76% above February's 1,776. A light jet costs £10,000–£16,000; midsize £16,000–£25,000. Davos week pushes prices up 50–75%.

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.

The world's busiest private jet route is not New York-Miami or London-Paris. It is a 362-kilometer hop between two Texas cities — Dallas and Houston — that averaged 684 flights per month across the seven months from October 2025 through April 2026. The route peaked at 987 flights in March 2026 (global #1) and held the top position again in April with 570 flights. Its January trough of 412 flights — still ranked fourth globally — is the most revealing data point: structural energy-sector demand does not go away in winter.

The private aviation market is 70% fragmented — the top ten North American operators collectively control less than a third of departures. But within that fragmentation sits one company that has led every single month in our seven-month tracking window with a 2× lead over its nearest competitor. NetJets Aviation averaged 15.3% of North American business jet departures from October 2025 through April 2026. The question worth asking is not whether NetJets is the largest — it obviously is. The question is why the gap to #2 never closes.