As North America FAR Part 91 business aircraft flight activity continues a long and steady decline, FBOs are shifting their focus to capture more of the emerging fractional aircraft and commercial charter markets.

Long a bread-and-butter staple of the FBO fueling business, traditional Part 91 flight operations at one time represented more than 50% of business aviation flight activity dating back to 2019. Since then there has been a slow and steady decrease in flight hours for this category while fractional, scheduled commuter and on-demand charter operations (FAA Part 135) have seen steady increases.