WINGX Global Market Tracker:

Global bizjet growth steady near 4% as Monaco braces for peak demand

Global bizjet activity grew at rate of 2.8% year-on-year in Week 22 (25-31 May), with the year-to-date figure through May (1 January-31 May) at +3.9% ahead of last year, a 0.2 percentage point increase compared to the +3.7% YTD trend reported last week (through 24 May), with the YTD figure remaining around 4% for much of the year (a continuation of the +4.4% seen in 2025 vs 2024).

While accounting for less than 1% of all bizjet sectors flown last week, South America was the standout growth market, with sectors up by 11.0% vs Week 22 2025, while North America accounted for 71% of traffic and expanded 5.5%.

Global Bizjet Departures Trends YTD (1 January-31 May).

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Event Analysis: Monaco Grand Prix

*This week’s event analysis looks ahead to this weekend’s upcoming Monaco Grand Prix and the attendant surge in business jet traffic to nearby airports.

Traffic Surge: Ahead of the June 5-7 Monaco Grand Prix weekend, WINGX data from the 2025 Grand Prix shows business jet activity at Nice Côte d’Azur (LFMN), the primary airport for Monaco business jet traffic, running at roughly twice the normal levels across the race weekend. Combined arrivals and departures averaged more than 260 movements per day from Thursday to Monday, up close to 110% compared to the typical 125-a-day week, and peaked at 301 on the Monday exodus, 2.4x the normal day.

Daily business jet movements (arrivals and departures) at Nice (LFMN) at the 2025 Monaco Grand Prix.

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Ramp capacity: An analysis of parking activity at LFMN also reveals the parking constraint caused by the Grand Prix. The number of jets seeking parking each day jumped during the event, topping 157 on Thursday against a normal 55 – 65, but the apron itself is never filled to match that inflow. Peak concurrent aircraft on the ramp reached only about 145, just a third above a typical weekend pea of 105 – 110, because the airport could not hold the arriving jets, pushing them back out.

This is proven by average dwell time which collapsed from roughly 28 hours on a normal day to about 8 hours across Saturday through Monday. This is the classic Riviera “drop-and-go,” where jets drop off passengers and immediately reposition before returning to pick up their passengers again. This shows that ramp space, not runway or airspace, is the
limiting factor that pushes overflow traffic to satellite fields such as Cannes-Mandelieu.

Daily business jet parking events and average dwell time (hours) at Nice (LFMN) at the 2025 Monaco Grand Prix.

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Regional Performance Analysis

North America

The North American market surpassed the global market trend with 5.5% growth in Week 22 and is now up 5.0% for the year through 31 May. The key US market is driving this YTD growth trend, up 5.1% vs YTD 2025. On a key state level, Florida, Texas, and California account for 36% of all North American bizjet departures so far this year, and each state has realized approximately 7% YTD growth.

US business jet flights by departure state YTD (1 January-31 May).

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Europe.

European business jet activity contracted slightly in Week 22, declining 1.5% versus Week 22 2025. The region saw significant growth differences by top countries, with airports in the UK seeing the strongest growth at +4.8%, trailed behind by Italy with just 0.7% Week 22 YOY growth. Amongst other key countries, Switzerland, France, and Germany all realized weekly year-on-year declines at -4.4%, -10.1%, and -21.8% respectively.

On a YTD level, the overall European region is up 2.6% compared to YTD last year, with continued differences by top countries. Italy leads YTD growth at 13.3%, followed by Switzerland at 5.4%, then the UK at +0.8%. France and Germany are both seeing YTD declines at -2.0% and -0.1% respectively. Departures from Italy, Switzerland, the UK, France, and Germany account for 61% of all Europe departures so far this year.

Europe business jet flights by departure country YTD (1 January-31 May).

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Rest of World

Business jet activity in regions outside Europe and North America continue to see diverging trends due to the Middle East conflict. South America continues to be a standout emerging market, up 4.4% YTD vs 2025, followed by Asia, up 3.5% vs YTD 2025. Africa and the Middle East are the ROW regions realizing a decline through May this year, with Africa down 1.0% and the Middle East down 21.1%. Although as noted in last week’s bulletin, Turkey is one bright spot for the Middle East, up 5.1% YTD.

ROW business jet flights by departure airport YTD (1 January-31 May).

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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.

Weekly Middle East bizjet fuel uplift trends pre vs post conflict.

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Nick Koscinski, WINGX Analyst, comments: "Week 22 shows steady growth overall, with weekly activity up near 3% and holding at 4% for the year. North America leads year-to-date amongst all regions, while the Middle East remains severely constrained.

"Our Monaco preview shows that European bizjet traffic is poised for a busy weekend, with roughly twice the normal traffic at Nice and a ramp so full that jets cannot stay."

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@wingxadvance.com for your copy of the report.

*For this week’s event analysis, WINGX has provided a view of historic bizjet traffic at
Monaco GP airports using our proprietary AI prompts

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BlueSky Business Aviation News | 4th June 2026 | Issue #845