For example, an owner puts his or her airplane up for use under a dry lease agreement, where the lessee must supply the flight crew and has operational control. Much has been said about the rise of so-called “illegal charters” among private owners of turbine aircraft ostensibly run under Part 91 rules. There could be another explanation of Part 91 flying’s popularity, however speculative. Even better, your chances of being stuck in seat 29B (that’s the center seat at the distant end of a single-aisle cabin) simply vanish. When you can go point-to-point, on your own schedule, and in a cabin that’s vastly more comfortable than the airlines’, who wouldn’t opt for that? There are no hubs and spokes, so no connections, no lost luggage, no cancellations, and much less chance of a kid kicking the back of your seat. And the popularity of signing up with Part 91(k) fractional and shared-ownership firms has steadily risen. Once someone has had a taste for private flying-and more control over when a flight takes off or lands-it’s hard to turn back. This is often the gateway to private ownership for many.
Use shift+enter to make line breaks.Of course, more and more people are discovering the value and convenience of on-demand charter flying. Yes, Part 91 flights have survived the COVID-19 pandemic, but could something else help explain Part 91’s popularity? It’s interesting to see the 550,000-flight split between Part 91 and fractional operations. By aircraft category, large-cabin airplanes took the prize for first-half growth by racking up 28.5 percent more activity than the previous year, followed by midsize cabin jets at a 17.9 percent growth, small cabin jets at 14.5 percent growth, and turboprops bringing up the rear with an 8.8 percent growth rate. And for all the ballyhoo about fractional operations, they came in third, at approximately 250,000 flights, for an increase of 14.2 percent. Part 91 operations lead the pack, with just more than 800,000 flights (up 19 percent), followed by Part 135 operations (up 12.8 percent) at some 700,000 flights. Total flight activity is up 15.8 percent from 2021’s levels, and flight hours for the same period are up 23.1 percent. It also breaks out activity levels by airplane type and operational category. and sunrise at FL280 as the pilot of a Beechcraft King Air 260 flies the final leg of a ferry flight from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, to Harare, Zimbabwe.Īrgus International, which is in the business of monitoring general aviation trends, put out a report comparing first-half 2022 to first-half 2021 year-to-date flight activity and flight hours.
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