A short briefing every morning: what’s new in the world of private jets, plus an aircraft, a priced route, a fact and a story from the archive.
Dassault has begun flying a second Falcon 10X prototype, with aircraft serial number 2 making its first takeoff from Mérignac on September 24. The 10X is the French maker’s largest business jet and is aimed at the ultra-long-range top end of the market.
Read the brief →Embraer delivered 41 executive jets in the third quarter of 2026 and reached 115 business jet deliveries for the first nine months. The quarter included 22 light jets and 19 Praetors.
Read the brief →North American jet card rates fell to an average of $10,958 per hour in Q3, according to Private Jet Card Comparisons data reported by AIN. That is down 3.1% from Q2 and 2.7% from a year earlier.
Read the brief →An Airbus Corporate Jets survey of 35 Middle East financiers and brokers found 83% expect large business jet activity to grow by 2030. The same share expects sustainable aviation fuel use to rise over the next five years.
Read the brief →A new Airbus Corporate Jets study found 70% of family office business aviation travel is now conducted by private aircraft. The surveyed executives collectively manage $303 billion in assets.
Read the brief →The G500 introduced Gulfstream's clean-sheet GVII family in 2018, with full fly-by-wire controls, active sidesticks and the touchscreen-based Symmetry flight deck. Its 5,300 nm range at Mach 0.85 connects Los Angeles with London or New York with Dubai, and the type has become the backbone of Gulfstream's large-cabin sales. Range 5,300 nm, 13 seats, about $49,500,000 new and roughly $4,600 an hour in fuel and maintenance.
Full profile →About 62 percent of the world's roughly 24,000 business jets are registered in the United States, and North America accounts for around 70 percent of new deliveries. (Fleet data reported by Simple Flying and Aviation Week, 2025-2026)
More numbers →818 nautical miles, about 2h 15m in a light jet, roughly $15,818–$22,793 one-way for four — about $4,826 a seat.
Price this route →France's little four-seat MS.760 Paris flew on 29 July 1954 and was marketed as a business jet as well as a military trainer. Passengers sat under a fighter-style sliding canopy with no aisle, which limited its appeal, but it proved that a small, privately developed jet aircraft could exist at all. Roughly 150 were built, and a handful still fly with enthusiasts today.
The full timeline →Dion is widely reported to fly a Canadian-built Global Express XRS with six sleeping berths and a small cinema, valued at around $42 million when new. She had earlier been reported to use a Boeing Business Jet during her Las Vegas residency years.
The story →MOSTLY TRUE — Pets in the cabin are routine on charter and owned aircraft, and nobody weighs your suitcase at a counter. The limits are physical and legal rather than bureaucratic: baggage holds on light jets are small, every kilo counts against the take-off calculation, and animals crossing borders still need the same paperwork as on an airline.
The evidence →